Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryAny period of seven consecutive days. · 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.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *weyg-der. Proto-Germanic *wikǭ Proto-West Germanic *wikā Old English wice Middle English wyke English week 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.
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- Inherited-form mentionwykeenm
- Inherited-form mentionwiceang
- Inherited-form mention*wikāgmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*wikǭgem-pro · sequence; week
- Derivation mention*weyg-ine-pro
- Cognate mention*wīkwanągem-pro · to bend, yield, cease
- Cognate mentionouksco
- Cognate mentionwickyol
- Cognate mentionwaagfrr
- Cognate mentionWiekstq
- Cognate mentionwikefy · week
- Cognate mentionWochnbar · week
- Cognate mentionbochcim
- Cognate mentionweeknl · week
- Cognate mentionWochede · week
- Cognate mentionwaekli
- Cognate mentionWochlb · week
- Cognate mentionbochmhn · week
- Cognate mentionwochwym · week
- Cognate mentionוואָךyi · week
- Cognate mentionugeda · week
- Cognate mentionwikuovd
- Cognate mentionvukugmq-jmk · week
- Cognate mentionukenb · week
- Cognate mentionvekenn
- Cognate mentionugagmq-scy · week
- Cognate mentionveckasv · week
- Cognate mention𐍅𐌹𐌺𐍉got · sequence; week
- Cognate mentiongwighkw · periwinkles, whelks
- Cognate mentionfaochaga
- Cognate mentionvicisla · alteration, turn; time
- Cognate mentionεἴκωgrc · to yield
- Cognate mentionvigsq · bier, litter, stretcher
- Cognate mentionavêtinkmr
- Cognate mentionآویختَنfa · to hang, suspend
- Cognate mentionwīcanang · to yield, give way
- Doublet mentionweaken
- Doublet mentionwicken
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