), which shows association with " day ", possibly with Day personified as a deity which, Grimm points out, would agree with the meaning " shining one, white one, a god " derived from the meaning of Baltic baltas, further adducing Slavic Belobog and German Berhta.

The English word calendar is derived from the Latin word kalendae, which was the Latin name of the first day of every month.

* dm ( for Dungeon Master ), a program included in some versions of BSD Unix and operating systems derived from it, which could be used to restrict the playing of games on a computer to certain times of the day ( dm manual page from 4. 4BSD )

It is rooted in Indoeuropean * d ( e ) y ( e ) w, meaning bright sky or daylight, from which also derived the name of Vedic god Dyaus and the Latin deus, ( god ) and dies ( day, daylight ).

This " post-glacial rebound " brings mass closer to the rotation axis of the Earth, which makes the Earth spin faster ( law of conservation of angular momentum ): the rate derived from models is about − 0. 6 ms / day / cy.

The name " equinox " is derived from the Latin aequus ( equal ) and nox ( night ), because around the equinox, the night and day have approximately equal length.

The Amaravi, who eventually became known as the Chewa ( a word possibly derived from a term meaning " foreigner "), migrated to Malawi from the region of the modern day Republic of Congo to escape unrest and disease.

Because Ptolemy derived many of his key latitudes from crude longest day values, his latitudes are erroneous on average by roughly a degree ( 2 degrees for Byzantium, 4 degrees for Carthage ), though capable ancient astronomers knew their latitudes to more like a minute.

In Christianity, Sabbath is a weekly day of rest or religious observance, derived from Biblical Sabbath (, shabbâth,, meaning intensive " repose ").

The Modern Irish word Samhain is derived from the Old Irish samain, samuin, or samfuin, all referring to 1 November ( latha na samna: ' samhain day '), and the festival and royal assembly held on that date in medieval Ireland ( oenaig na samna: ' samhain assembly ').

But Dajjal may be derived, by a very common confusion between n and l, from Dagon, whose name two neighbouring villages bear to this day, while one of the gates of Lydda used to be called the Gate of Dagon.

The name Dagda may ultimately be derived from the Proto-Indo-European * Dhagho-deiwos " shining divinity ", the first element being cognate with the English word " day ", and possibly a byword for a deification of a notion such as " splendour ".

The place-name derived from a 1908 Christmas story about three black men who died in a blizzard ; the next day, the bodies of two were found at the foot of the mountain.

A " groundation " ( or " grounation ") or " binghi " is a holy day ; the name " binghi " is derived from "

) The vernal equinox itself precesses slowly westward relative to the fixed stars, completing one revolution in about 26, 000 years, so the misnamed sidereal day (" sidereal " is derived from the Latin sidus meaning " star ") is some 0. 008 seconds shorter than the Earth's period of rotation relative to the fixed stars.

Both the dohyō-iri, or ring-entering ceremonies performed by the top two divisions before the start of their wrestling day, and in the rituals performed by both combatants immediately before a bout, are derived from Shinto.

The name of Monday is derived from Old English Mōnandæg and Middle English Monenday, which means " moon day ".

The English noun Monday derived sometime before 1200 from monedæi, which itself developed from Old English ( around 1000 ) mōnandæg and mōndæg ( literally meaning " moon's day "), which is cognate to other Germanic languages, including Old Frisian mōnadeig, Middle Low German and Middle Dutch mānendach ( modern Dutch Maandag ), Old High German mānetag ( modern German Montag ), and Old Norse mánadagr ( Swedish and Norwegian nynorsk måndag, Icelandic mánudagur.

The English noun Sunday derived sometime before 1250 from sunedai, which itself developed from Old English ( before 700 ) Sunnandæg ( literally meaning " sun's day "), which is cognate to other Germanic languages, including Old Frisian sunnandei, Old Saxon sunnundag, Middle Dutch sonnendach ( modern Dutch zondag ), Old High German sunnun tag ( modern German Sonntag ), and Old Norse sunnudagr ( Danish and Norwegian søndag, Icelandic sunnudagur and Swedish söndag ).

In most Indic languages, the word for Sunday is Ravi-vāsara or Aditya-vāsara or its derived forms — vāsara meaning day, Aditya and Ravi both being a style ( manner of address ) for Surya, the chief solar deity and one of the Adityas.

The word for Friday in most Romance languages is derived from Latin dies Veneris or " day of Venus " ( a translation of Greek Aphrodites hemera ) such as vendredi in French, venerdì in Italian, viernes in Spanish, divendres in Catalan, vennari in Corsican, and vineri in Romanian.

An exception is Portuguese, also a Romance language, which uses the word sexta-feira, meaning " sixth day of liturgical celebration ", derived from the Latin " feria sexta " used in religious texts where it was not allowed to consecrate days to pagan gods.

The name is derived from Old English Þūnresdæg and Middle English Thuresday, which means " Thor's day ".

The name is derived from Old English Wōdnesdæg and Middle English Wednesdei, " day of Wodanaz ", ultimately a calque of dies Mercurii " day of Mercury.

The Gap looming before him -- the place where had confronted Jack English on that day so many years ago -- was his exit from all that had meaning to him.

It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.

I felt strongly attached to the hall, however, and hardly a day passed when I did not go to look at it from a distance.

Kodyke had appeared at the mine one day bearing a letter from Kruger.

I quit work at my usual hour as if this day was no different from other days.

Here, on the hottest day, it is cool beneath the stone and fresh from the water flowing in the sluices at the bottom of the vaults.

And although these insights into the nature of art may be in themselves insufficient for a thoroughgoing philosophy of art, their peculiar authenticity in this day and age requires that they be taken seriously and gives promise that from their very substance, new and valid chapters in the philosophy of art may be written.

Almost from that day, until his death, Olgivanna was to stay at his side ; ;

I had had difficulties from the very first day.

I remember one day when Mr. Hearst ( and I never knew why he liked me, either ) sent the Hetman a telegram: `` Please find some more reporters like that young man from Denver ''.

The day passed eventfully enough, with a constant stream of visitors, some stopping only to say hello, others getting into serious conversations, such as one Andre Fuchs, a free-lance journalist from Strasbourg who wrote an article for the Nouvelle Alsatian in highly sympathetic terms.

He smoked, as did everybody, and imbibed the various alcoholic beverages of that day, although his protestations while at Cambridge and after that he was no drunkard point to reasonable abstinence from the wild drinking bouts of some of the undergraduates and, we must add, of some of their elders including many of the regents or teachers.

Those famous lines of the Greek Anthology with which a fading beauty dedicates her mirror at the shrine of a goddess reveal a wise attitude: `` Venus, take my votive glass, Since I am not what I was, What from this day I shall be, Venus, let me never see ''.

The men around him, observes the narrator, `` have been living from day to day for thousands of years ''.

Across the way from the apartment building is a ruined house, shot to hell that day in 1849, and left that way as a memorial.

The General Assembly, which adjourns today, has performed in an atmosphere of crisis and struggle from the day it convened.

And so the young minister resigned, to go and study and pray, having never passed a day, he told his parishioners, when `` I did not gain from you far more than I ever gave to you ''.

Volumes One and Two, selected from the sound tracks of a television series, contain `` conversations with the elder wise men of our day ''.

As a business man I have to use the telephone constantly, from three to four hours a day.

`` If the day should ever come that foreign invaders swarm ashore along the Gulf Coast '', the account reads, `` they can count on heavy opposition from a group of commando-trained telephone employees -- all girls.

To this day the Atomic Energy Commission shies away from discussing the health aspects of fallout.

Marlene ( surname: Adamo ), 25, a Brazilian divorcee who learned the dance from Arabic friends in Paris, now lives on Manhattan's West Side, is about the best belly dancer working the Casbah, loves it so much that she dances on her day off.

He thought how this dainty, fragile older woman threading her way through the streets of Westminster on a day in June, enjoying the flowers in the shops, the greetings from old friends, but never really drawing a deep, passionate breath, was so like himself.

I hated the goddamn army from the first day I got in anyhow.