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Does the French word for Friday, "vendredi", come from the Latin "Veneris" or the old Norse ...
Very unlikely!
While the phonetic similarities are real, the old Norse name of the weekday etymologically goes back to Frig's day, and not Freyja's day.
The actual form of the Norse word is somewh …