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The term 'eonaz' means 'day', specifically the time when the sun is up. It is also the word for the 24 hour unit of time that begins at 00:00. It is generally used as a noun. It has an evident relationship to the word 'eon', 'sun', but it was created by Davidson for Old Common, and it has no known etymology.

Eonaz is also used as the general word for 'date'. When used, listeners tend to default to interpreting it as 'day of the month' or full date and not 'day of the week', unless ocntext seems to point to the latter interpretation - 'na eonaz na opilaz' or 'na eonaz na kinneon' can be used for disambiguation for date and day of the week if needed.

As a modifier, 'eonazys' can be used as an adverb or an adjective and means 'daily' or 'every day'.

The expressions 'eonaz uluan' and 'eonaz' peten' mean 'morning' and 'evening', respectively. In casual speech, the 'eonaz' might be dropped.

The names of the days of the week are formed by using ordinal numbers with the word 'Eonaz', with the ordinal number required to appear immediately before the word 'Eonaz' and also capitalised. The week in Common starts on Sunday. So Sunday would be Ates Eonaz. Refer to attached topic for details.

The expression 'zra eonaz' means literally 'true day', and is a set expression meaning 'hello'. It is an interjection and does not take any determiner. There are a whole class of similar expressions based on time of day, see attached article on greetings. 'Zra eonaz' has the distinction of being the universal hello, it can be used any time of day. See also the attached short form, zry'náz.

The set phrase 'hulaz eonaz', literally 'year day', is the word for 'anniversary' or 'birthday'. A wedding anniversary can be clarified as 'katen hulaz eonaz', and a birthday can be clarified as 'lufi hulaz eonaz'.