This realization makes me painfully aware of how far I have to go to become self-sufficient, and it's making me feel ridiculously inadequate.
Incidentally, the word Monday gets its name from the moon, because calendars were set by lunar cycles at one point. In Indian languages, Monday is Somvar. Soma is the moon. Soma is also the drug in Huxley's Brave New World. This fact makes me chuckle with its strange interconnectivity. Monday, drugs. Drugs, Monday. Yes?
The Russians, meanwhile, named Monday понедельник (transliterated as poniediélnik), or "the day after the day we don't do anything, that day being Sunday, which is the day of rest, which is the day of no doing". Most of the Slavs followed suit, I guess, since in Czech it's pondělí, which also translates as "the day after Sunday".
Linguistic lesson courtesy of Wikipedia.
