Thursday "xoves" and Romanian "joi". This is also reflected in the p-Celtic Welsh "dydd Iau". The astrological and astronomical sign of the planet Jupiter (♃) is sometimes used to represent Thursday. Since the Roman god Jupiter was identified with Thunor (Norse Thor in northern Europe), most Germanic languages name the day after this god: "Torsdag" in Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish, "Hósdagur"/"Tórsdagur" in Faroese, "Donnerstag" in German or "Donderdag" in Dutch. Finnish and Northern Sami, both non-Germanic (Uralic) languages, uses the borrowing "Torstai" and "Duorastat". In the extinct Polabian Slavic language, it was "perundan", Perun being the Slavic equivalent of Thor. There
Determination of the day of the week for the following month. The item for January is "0"; for February or March, "3"; for December, "12". Day-item: The total, thus reached, must be corrected, by deducting "1" (first adding 7, if the total be "0"), if the date be January or February in a leap year, remembering that every year, divisible by 4, is a Leap Year, excepting only the century-years, in `New Style', when the number of centuries is not so divisible (e.g. 1800). The final result gives the day of the week, "0" meaning Sunday, "1" Monday, and so on. Examples: 17, divided by 4, leaves