The concept of the week, on the other hand, was adopted from the Romans, from about the first century, the various Germanic languages having adopted the Greco-Roman system of naming of the days of the week after the classical planets, inserting loan translations for the names of the planets, substituting the names of Germanic gods in a process known as interpretatio germanica.
Por outra parte, o concepto de semana foi adoptado polos romanos cara o século I, as distintas linguas xermánicas adoptaron o sistema grecorromano de nomear os días da semana segundo os planetas clásicos, enxertando calcos semánticos para os nomes dos planetas, substituíndo os nomes dos deuses xermánicos nun proceso denominado interpretatio germanica.