Names of the days of the week the "first day". This convention is also found in some Austronesian languages whose speakers were converted to Christianity by European missionaries. In Slavic languages, some of the names correspond to numerals after Sunday: compare Russian "vtornik" "Tuesday" and "vtoroj" "the following", "chetverg" "Thursday" and "chetvertyj" "the fourth", "pyatnitsa" "Friday" and "pyatyj" "the fifth"; see also the Notes. In Standard Chinese, the week is referred to as the cycle of the stars (). The modern Chinese names for the days of the week are based on a simple numerical sequence. The word for "week" (which is literally translated to "star day")
Sunday Germanic term is a Germanic interpretation of Latin "dies solis" ("day of the sun"), which is a translation of the Ancient Greek "heméra helíou". The p-Celtic Welsh language also translates the Latin "day of the sun" as "dydd Sul". In most Indian languages, the word for Sunday is "Ravivāra" or "Adityavāra" or its derived forms — "vāra" meaning day, "Aditya" and "Ravi" both being a style (manner of address) for Surya i.e. the Sun and Suryadeva the chief solar deity and one of the Adityas. Ravivāra is first day cited in Jyotisha, which provides logical reason for giving the name