How do you pronounce monday?

The recorded pronunciation is /ˈmʌn.deɪ/.

Where does monday come from?

It is traced to Middle English.

monday

/ˈmʌn.deɪ/

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.80 in modern English

Syllables: Mon-day
IPA: /ˈmʌn.deɪ/

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Meaning

noun

The second day of the week in many religious traditions, and the first day of the week in systems using the ISO 8601 norm. It follows Sunday and precedes Tuesday.

adv

On Monday.

Canadian usage; American usage; Informal

Example Sentences

"Mr. Whymper, a solicitor living in Willingdon, […] would visit the farm every Monday morning to receive his instructions."
"An LMPD Board Notice of Hearing states part of Cosgrove’s hearings took place in November. The second half of his hearing is set to begin Monday and end Wednesday."
"We've worked out the schedule for Easter week: we'll be shopping Monday."

Etymology

From Middle English Monday, Monenday, from Old English mōnandæġ (“day of the moon”), from Proto-West Germanic *mānini dag, a calque (interpretātiō germānica) of Latin diēs Lūnae, equivalent to Moon + day. See also Japanese 月曜日 (“Moon's day”). Cognates Compare Scots Monanday (“Monday”), Yola Mondei (“Monday”), Saterland Frisian Moundai (“Monday”), West Frisian moandei (“Monday”), Alemannic German meintog, miantag, méntag, mìntàg, mäntag, Määntig (“Monday”), Bavarian Monda, Mondåg, montach, monti (“Monday”), Cimbrian matak, menta, méentag (“Monday”), Dutch maandag (“Monday”), German Montag (“Monday”), German Low German Maandag (“Monday”), Luxembourgish Méindeg (“Monday”), Mòcheno ma'ta (“Monday”), Pennsylvania German Mundaag, Muundaag (“Monday”), Vilamovian möntaog (“Monday”), West Flemish moandag (“Monday”), Yiddish מאָנטיק (montik, “Monday”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål mandag (“Monday”), Faroese mánadagur (“Monday”), Icelandic mánudagur (“Monday”), Norwegian Nynorsk, Swedish måndag (“Monday”), Finnish maanantai (“Monday”).

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: *dʰegʷʰ-, Monday, mōnandæġ, *mānini dag, diēs Lūnae

Usage

Inflected Forms

Mondays (plural)

Derived Forms

Mondayise Mondayish Mondayitis Mondayize Mondayman Mondayness Mondays Smonday

Phrases

Monday Club Monday demonstrations Monday disease Monday effect Monday fever Monday hammer Monday-morning Monday morning fever

Synonyms

Second Day Mon Mon. washing day

Rhymes With

bundy burundi grundy lundy mundy gundy cundy mundie vangundy sunday sundae whitsunday