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See also: Wéëk

English

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *weyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *wikǭ
Proto-West Germanic *wikā
Old English wiċe
Middle English wyke
English week

    From Middle English wyke, weke, from Old English wiċe, wucu (“week”), from Proto-West Germanic *wikā, from Proto-Germanic *wikǭ (“sequence; week”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyg-, *weyk- (“to bend, curve”). Related to Proto-Germanic *wīkaną (“to bend, yield, cease”).

    Cognates

    Cognate with Scots ouk, oulk (“week”), Yola wick, wik (“week”), North Frisian waag, Week, weg (“week”), Saterland Frisian Wiek, Wíek (“week”), West Frisian wike (“week”), Bavarian Wochn (“week”), Cimbrian boch, bòcha (“week”), Dutch week (“week”), German Woche (“week”), German Low German Week (“week”), Limburgish waek, Wéëk (“week”), Luxembourgish Woch (“week”), Mòcheno boch (“week”), Vilamovian woch (“week”), Yiddish וואָך (vokh, “week”), Danish uge (“week”), Elfdalian wiku, wikå (“week”), Faroese and Icelandic vika (“week”), Jamtish vuku (“week”), Norwegian Bokmål uke (“week”), Norwegian Nynorsk veke, vika, viku, vukku, vuku (“week”), Scanian uga (“week”), Swedish vecka (“week”), Gothic 𐍅𐌹𐌺𐍉 (wikō, “sequence; week”); also Cornish gwigh (“periwinkles, whelks”), Irish faocha, faochóg (“periwinkle”), Latin vicis (“alteration, turn; time”), Ancient Greek εἴκω (eíkō, “to yield”), Albanian vig (“bier, litter, stretcher”), Northern Kurdish avêtin, avitin, avîtin, havêtin, havîtin (“to cast, hurl, throw”), Persian آویختَن (âvixtan, “to hang, suspend”), بیختن (bēxtan / bixtan, “to sieve, sift”). Related also to Old English wīcan (“to yield, give way”), English weak and wick.

    Alternative forms

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    Noun

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    week (plural weeks)

    2. Any period of seven consecutive days.
      Alternative forms: wk, wks (symbols)
      Synonyms: sevennight (archaic), sennight (archaic), hebdomad (obsolete)
      Holonyms: megasecond < fortnight < month < year < gigasecond < century < kiloannum, kiloyear, millennium < terasecond < mega-annum, megayear < petasecond < giga-annum, gigayear < exasecond < zettasecond < yottasecond < ronnasecond < quettasecond
      Meronyms: quectosecond < rontosecond < yoctosecond < zeptosecond < attosecond < femtosecond < picosecond < nanosecond < microsecond < millisecond < centisecond < decisecond < second < decasecond < minute < hectosecond < kilosecond < hour < day, weekday < weekend
      • 2013 July 6, “The rise of smart beta”, in The Economist‎[1], volume 408, number 8843, archived from the original on 1 May 2024, page 68:
        Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recent weeks but they are still unattractive. Equities have suffered two big bear markets since 2000 and are wobbling again. It is hardly surprising that pension funds, insurers and endowments are searching for new sources of return.
      • 2024 May 5, Allison Chinchar, “Multiday severe weather threat could continue tornado streak this week”, in CNN‎[2], archived from the original on 15 May 2024:
        Some of the same areas hit by tornadoes just a little over a week ago are expecting severe storms again Monday afternoon and evening.
    3. A period of seven days beginning with Sunday or Monday.
    4. A period of five days beginning with Monday.
    5. A subdivision of the month into longer periods of work days punctuated by shorter weekend periods of days for markets, rest, or religious observation such as a sabbath.
      A 4-day week consists of Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.
    6. (following a named day) A date seven days after (sometimes before) the specified day.
      I'll see you Thursday week. [a week on Thursday, i.e. Thursday after next]
      The wedding is tomorrow week. [a week tomorrow, i.e. in eight days' time]
    Derived terms
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    weeks and parts of weeks
    temporal adverbs
    idioms and proverbs
    other
    Descendants
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    • → Māori: wiki
    • → Middle Scots: weik
    • → Swahili: wiki
    Translations
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    Further reading

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    Etymology 2

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    Imitative.

    Interjection

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    week

    1. The squeal of a pig.
      • 1837, William Evans Burton, Burton's Comic Songster, page 229:
        And ho, ho, ho, went Mister Pig, and week, week, week, went she; […]
      • 1848, The Garland, Or, Token of Friendship, page 231:
        […] his head came a-top of one of a litter of young pigs that happened at that moment to be foraging about: week! week! week! week! week! cried little piggy.

    Afrikaans

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    Etymology

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    From Dutch week, from Middle Dutch weke, from Old Dutch *wica, from Proto-Germanic *wikǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *weyg- (“to bend, wind, turn, yield”). Compare English week, West Frisian wike, German Woche.

    Pronunciation

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    Noun

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    week (plural weke)

    1. week
      Daar is sewe dae in die week. ― There are seven days in the week.

    Dutch

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    Pronunciation

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    Etymology 1

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    From Middle Dutch wēke, from Old Dutch *wica, from Proto-West Germanic *wikā, from Proto-Germanic *wikǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *weyg- (“to bend, wind, turn, yield”).

    Noun

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    week f (plural weken, diminutive weekje n)

    1. week, period of seven days
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    Etymology 2

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    From Middle Dutch wêec, from Old Dutch *wēc, from Proto-West Germanic *waikw, from Proto-Germanic *waikwaz.

    Adjective

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    week (comparative weker, superlative weekst)

    1. soft, tender, fragile
    2. weak, gentle, weakhearted
    Declension
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    Declension of week
    uninflected week
    inflected weke
    comparative weker
    positive comparative superlative
    predicative/adverbial week weker het weekst
    het weekste
    indefinite m./f. sing. weke wekere weekste
    n. sing. week weker weekste
    plural weke wekere weekste
    definite weke wekere weekste
    partitive weeks wekers —
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    Etymology 3

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    See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

    Verb

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    week

    1. inflection of weken:
      1. first-person singular present indicative
      2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
      3. imperative

    Verb

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    week

    1. singular past indicative of wijken

    Anagrams

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    Middle English

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    Noun

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    week

    1. (chiefly Late Middle English) alternative form of wyke (“week”)
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