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")
Welsh units homestead for purposes of inheritance &c., varying its size depending on the social status of the owner. The homestead of a nobleman (') was 12 Welsh acres, that of a serf ( ', ') had 8, and that of a bondsman or slave ( ') had 4. The text, however, notes the uncommonness of this division and says it was generally understood as 4 acres regardless of status. In the Dimetian Code used in southern Wales, the same divisions were reckoned differently: The Welsh seem to have used an eight- or nine-day week, rather than a seven-day one, long after