英语词汇se’nnight的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	se’nnight
词源	se’nnight. The Celts, like the Greeks, Babylonians, Persians, and Jews before them, customarily began each day at sunset, this practice giving us the term se’nnight for a week, or seven nights. In Genesis, for example, we find the evening coming before the morning in “The evening and the morning were the first day . . .” The same idea gives us fortnight (14 nights) for two weeks.
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