| 单词 | day name | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasday name   day name  n.  Brit.  , U.S.  , West African English   		 (a) the name of a day in any of various calendar systems;		 (b) (in West African traditional naming, and that of communities of West African descent) a name given to a child reflecting the day of the week on which he or she was born.ΚΠ 1826    Mirror of Lit. 8 July 11/2  				Cooba! Quamina! Coobenha! Juba! Mimba! me call you by your born-day name to please you!]			 1844    H. Browne Ordo Sæclorum 525  				Mr. Greswell sets out with a confused fancy that these day-names are somehow so necessarily connected with the tropical year, that the Julian year has no right to them. 1905    Amer. Anthropologist 7 551/1  				At birth comes the day-name,..eight days later the child is given a second name by the father. 1966    Proc. Royal Anthropol. Inst. No. 1966. 260/1  				Moreover, a matricula of the town dated 1655..lists men and women with Maya day names. 2010    C. M. Cole in  C. M. Canning  & T. Postlewait Representing Past  iv. 271  				He carefully wrote down some Twi words I taught him, including his ‘day name’ in Akan, ‘Kwabena’. < as lemmas  | 
	
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