ereyesterday / overmorrow

[prettygoodword]

ereyesterday (ehr-YES-tur-day) - n., (obs.) the day before yesterday.

overmorrow (OH-vuhr-mowr-row) - n., (obs.) the day after tomorrow.


Both created out of English roots, the former dating back to Old English while the latter seems to be from Middle English some time. The latter is more easily found in dictionaries, in part because it appears in the 1551 Tyndale Bible and so needs to be explained.

---L.

Comments

[kukalaka.livejournal.com]

Dutch: eergisteren, overmorgen.

[prettygoodword.livejournal.com]

There's cognates in German as well.

---L.

[lxndr.livejournal.com]

I love 'overmorrow' but I'm not a fan of 'ereyesterday.' Probably because it looks like a kludge, whereas overmorrow looks... more streamlined.

[prettygoodword.livejournal.com]

It's possible to read ereyesterday as an open-ended adverb, conveying any time before yesterday.

---L.

[med_cat]

Ah, so there _were_ words for these in English ;) I always thought it was rather funny that Russian has single words for those concepts, whereas in English, one must content oneself with phrases ;)

Too bad they became obsolete!

P.S. I've enjoyed the paired words week very much, thanks!

[prettygoodword.livejournal.com]

Glad you liked them!

---L.