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week

noun
/wiːk/

Etymology

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.

  1. derived from *weyg-✻
  2. inherited from *wikǭ✻ — “sequence; week”
  3. inherited from *wikā✻
  4. inherited from wiċe
  5. inherited from wyke

Definitions

  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. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. A subdivision of the month into longer periods of work days punctuated by shorter weekend…

      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.

    2. 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]

    3. The squeal of a pig.

      • And ho, ho, ho, went Mister Pig, and week, week, week, went she; […]
      • […] 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.

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Derived

boxing week, bull week, bush week, coasties week, dead week, Ember week, fashion week, finals week, five-day week, freshers' week, frosh week, Golden Week, hell week, Holy Week, leap week, leavers week, midweek, mid-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, week to week, last week · +34 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at week. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at week. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at week

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA