week
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See also: Wéëk
English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
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.
Alternative forms
Noun
week (plural weeks)
- Any period of seven consecutive days.
- 2013 July 6, “The rise of smart beta”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8843, 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.
- 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.
- (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]
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Derived terms
weeks and parts of weeks
- boxing week
- bull week
- bush week
- coasties week
- dead week
- Ember week
- fashion week
- five-day week
- freshers' week
- frosh week
- Golden Week
- hell week
- Holy Week
- leap week
- leavers week
- noughth week, 0th week
- orientation week
- prophetic week
- rag week
- reading week
- red week
- revision week
- schoolies week
- school week
- shark week
- spirit week
- technical week
- tech week
- the Three Weeks
- week-end, weekend
- white week
- working week, workweek
temporal adverbs
idioms and proverbs
- any day of the week
- any day of the week and twice on Sunday
- any day of the week and twice on Sundays
- as modern as next week
- a week from next Tuesday
- a week is a long time in politics
- be born last week
- every day of the week
- every day of the week and twice on Sunday
- every day of the week and twice on Sundays
- flavor of the week
- flavour of the week
- for weeks on end
- I'm here all week
- knock someone into the middle of next week
- modern as next week
- monster of the week
- next next week
- second Tuesday of the week
- two week millionaire
- two-week wait
- villain of the week
Descendants
Translations
period of seven days
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Further reading
Etymology 2
Imitative.
Interjection
week
- 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
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.
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Noun
week (plural weke)
- week
- Daar is sewe dae in die week. ― There are seven days in the week.
Dutch
Pronunciation
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)
- week, period of seven days
Derived terms
Descendants
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)
Declension
Antonyms
Derived terms
Descendants
- Jersey Dutch: wîk
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
week
- inflection of weken:
Verb
week
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Middle English
Noun
week
- Alternative form of weke (“week”)
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