Time & numbers

Saturday

Source:sábbatonGreek · “Sabbath (from Hebrew šabbāt)”probable

East and South Slavic u points to a nasal *sǫbota (compare German Samstag, from a nasalized *sambaton); Polish and Czech sobota lack the nasal, so the two halves probably took the word separately.

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English

Saturday

Polish

sobota

sɔˈbɔta

CognateSame source — the sound laws connect them.

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BCS script

Latin under Cyrillic

Russian
суббо́таsubbota
sʊˈbotəborrowed · Greek sábbaton, via early Slavic *sǫbota
The double б is a bookish spelling after Greek.
Ukrainian
субо́таsubota
suˈbɔtaborrowed · Greek sábbaton, via early Slavic *sǫbota
Polish
sobota
sɔˈbɔtaborrowed · Greek or Latin sabbatum, via early Slavic *sobota
Czech
sobota
ˈsobotaborrowed · Greek or Latin sabbatum, via early Slavic *sobota
Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian
subotaсубота
ˈsubotaborrowed · Greek sábbaton, via early Slavic *sǫbota
English
Saturday
English shares this source: Sabbath