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week¹
- /wiːk/
- [ˈwɪi̯k]
Sounds like weak · Rhymes with -iːk
Where it comes from
From Middle English wyke, weke, from Old English wice, wucu (“week”), from Proto-West Germanic *wikā, from Proto-Germanic *wikǭ (“sequence; week”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyg-, *weyk- (“to bend, curve”). Related to weak and dialectal English wick (“corner”); see Proto-Germanic *wīk(w)aną (“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.
noun weeks · weeke
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Any period of seven consecutive days.
Holonyms: megasecond < fortnight < month < year < gigasecond < century < kiloannum, kiloyear, millennium < terasecond < mega-annum, megayear < petasecond < giga-annum, gigayear < exasecond < zettasecond < yottasecond < ronnasecond < quettasecond
Similar: sevennight, sennight, hebdomad
- A period of seven days beginning with Sunday or Monday.
- A period of five days beginning with Monday.
- 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.
- 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]
Similar: hebdomad, sennight, sevennight, week
week²
- /wiːk/
- [ˈwɪi̯k]
Sounds like weak · Rhymes with -iːk
Where it comes from
Imitative.
interjection
- The squeal of a pig. And ho, ho, ho, went Mister Pig, and week, week, week, went she; […]
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: hebdomad, workweek, calendar week, fortnight, weekly, seven, time, weekday, month, thu, days, day, round, star, weekend, thursday
noun
Similar: hebdomad, sennight, sevennight, week
Translations
Every language
noun period of seven days
| Español | semana |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 주 ju, 주일 ju'il |
| 日本語 | 週 shū, 週間 shūkan |
| 中文 | 星期 xīngqī, 週 /周 zhōu, 禮拜 /礼拜 lǐbài |
| हिन्दी | सप्ताह saptāh, हफ़्ता haftā |
| Kiswahili | wiki, juma |
| Português | semana |
| Français | semaine, huit jours |
| Deutsch | Woche |
| Italiano | settimana |
| Ελληνικά | εβδομάδα evdomáda, επταήμερο eptaḯmero, εφταήμερο eftaḯmero |
| Română | săptămână |
| Русский | неде́ля nedélja |
| Tiếng Việt | tuần, tuần lễ |
| العربية | أُسْبُوع ʔusbūʕ, جُمْعَة jumʕa |
| עברית | שבוע, שָׁבוּעַ shavúa |
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title = {week},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
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