perjantai

Borrowed from Old Swedish frē(i)adagher, frīadagher, from Proto-West Germanic *Frījā dag.

Since Finnish historically lacks f and initial consonant clusters (such as fr), the word was adapted to fit the language's phonological rules. These changes can be imagined as *freja => *pereja => *perja (On the first step, F turns to P, and an epenthetic vowel appears to avoid the cluster [PR]. Then, on the second step, the unstressed vowel is dropped). For the -antai ending, compare maanantai (“Monday”) and sunnuntai (“Sunday”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈperjɑntɑi̯/, [ˈpe̞rjɑ̝n̪t̪ɑ̝i̯]

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• Rhymes: -erjɑntɑi
• Syllabification^(key): per‧jan‧tai

perjantai

1. Friday (day of the week; the fifth day of the week in Finland and in the ISO 8601 standard)

• (abbreviation) pe
• (days of the week) viikonpäivä; maanantai‎, tiistai‎, keskiviikko‎, torstai‎, perjantai‎, lauantai‎, sunnuntai‎ ^{(Category: fi:Days of the week)}

• “perjantai”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03