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    1 month ago

    Are these representing days of the week or ordinal numbers? These are all cognates in Spanish but I don’t see the connection

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        So why do you use numbers? Domingo and sábado make sense as they’re the same in Spanish

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          Because catholicism, the roman language names came from pagan gods, and the Portuguese wanted to distance from that. Sunday and Saturday keep their romance name because it had catholic/Jewish religious origin already.