The Arabic Cognates or Origins of the Names of "Week Days" in English andEuropean Languages: A Lexical Root Theory Approach

Abstract

This paper examines the Arabic cognates and/or origins of the names of days of the week in
English, German, French, Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit from a lexical root or radical linguistic
theory viewpoint. The data consists of all the days of the week from Saturday to Friday. The
results show that all such words have true Arabic cognates, with the same or similar forms and
meanings. All their different forms, however, resulted from natural and plausible causes of
linguistic change and its different routes in such languages. Contrary to Comparative Method or
traditional linguistic family classification claims, this entails that Arabic, English and all
European languages belong to the same language, let alone the same family. Owing to their
phonetic complexity, morphological wealth, and huge lexical variety, Arabic words are the
original source from which they stemmed. This proves the adequacy of the lexical root theory
according to which Arabic, English, German, French, Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit are dialects of
the same language where Arabic is their origin all.