week

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English

Alternative forms

• weeke (obsolete)

Etymology

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

Cognate with Saterland Frisian Wiek, West Frisian wike, Dutch week, German Woche, Danish uge, Norwegian Nynorsk veke, Swedish vecka, Icelandic vika, Gothic 𐍅𐌹𐌺𐍉 (wikō, “turn for temple service”), Latin vicis, Finnish viikko. Related also to Old English wīcan (“to yield, give way”), English weak and wick.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /wik/
• enPR: wēk, IPA^(key): /wiːk/
• Rhymes: -iːk
• Homophone: weak

Noun

week (plural weeks)

1. Any period of seven consecutive days.
2. A period of seven days beginning with Sunday or Monday.
3. A period of five days beginning with Monday.
4. 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.

5. (following a named day) A date seven days after (sometimes before) the specified day.

Synonyms

• hebdomad (historical or Christianity), sennight (archaic)

Hypernyms

• time, day, month, year

Meronyms

• midweek, weekday, weekend

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Maori: wiki

Translations

See also

• (days of the week) day of the week; Sunday,‎ Monday,‎ Tuesday,‎ Wednesday,‎ Thursday,‎ Friday,‎ Saturday ^{(Category: en:Days of the week) [edit]}
• calendar
• Sabbath

Further reading

• ISO 8601 on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Afrikaans

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

week (plural weke)

1. week

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

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʋeːk/
• Hyphenation: week
• Rhymes: -eːk

Etymology 1

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

Noun

week f (plural weken, diminutive weekje n)

1. week, period of seven days

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: week
• Berbice Creole Dutch: weki
• Jersey Dutch: wêk
• Negerhollands: week
• → Lokono: wiki
• →? Sranan Tongo: wiki
  • → Aukan: wiki
  • → Saramaccan: wíki

Etymology 2

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

Adjective

week (comparative weker, superlative weekst)

1. soft, tender, fragile
2. weak, gentle, weakhearted

Declension

Antonyms

• hard

Derived terms

Descendants

• Jersey Dutch: wîk

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

week

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

Verb

week

1. singular past indicative of wijken

Anagrams

• kwee
• weke

Middle English

Noun

week

1. Alternative form of weke (“week”)