Week

Table of contents

1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Count noun 1.3.1 Related terms 1.3.2 Translations 1.4 See also 2 Dutch 2.1 Etymology 2.2 Pronunciation 2.3 Noun 2.4 Adverb 2.5 Verb

English

Etymology

From Middle English weke < Old English wice < Proto-Germanic *wikon (original meaning was probably turn or succession) < Proto-Indo-European base *weik- (to bend, wind). Related to Proto-Germanic *wikanan ("to bend"). The Dutch noun derives from a related verb *waikwaz ("to yield"), via the current Dutch form wijken .

Related words are Old High German wohha , Modern German Woche , Old Frisian wike , Middle Dutch weke ("week"), Old Saxon wika , Old Norse vika , Gothic wikô ("turn for temple service"), Old English wican ("to yield", "give way").

Pronunciation

• wēk, /wiːk/, /wi:k/

  Homophones: weak

  Rhymes: -iːk

Count noun

1. A period of seven days

Related terms

• weekend
• weekly
• Holy Week

Translations

Albanian: javë Arabic: أُسْبُوع (’usbúːa‘) m, أُسْبُوعَان (’usbu‘áːn) dual, أسَابِيع (’asabíː‘) pl Breton: sizhun f, sizhunioù pl Bulgarian: седмица (sedmítsa) f Catalan: setmana f (ca) Chinese: 星期 (pinyin: xīngqí, Cantonese: singkei), 週 / 周 (zhōu) Croatian: sedmica f Czech: týden m Danish: uge Dutch: week f Esperanto: semajno Estonian: nädal Faroese: vika f Finnish: viikko French: semaine f (fr) Frisian: wike German: Woche f, Wochen pl (de) Greek: εβδομάδα (evdomáda) f Guaraní: arapokõindy Hebrew: שבוע (šavúa) m Hungarian: hét Icelandic: vika f Ido: semano Indonesian: minggu Interlingua: septimana Italian: settimana f

Japanese: 週 (しゅう, shū), 週間 (しゅうかん, shūkan) Korean: 주 (ju) Latin: septem dies m or f, septimana f Lithuanian: savaitė f Norwegian (bokmål): uke m/f Norwegian (nynorsk): veke f Ojibwe: anami’e-giizhig Polish: tydzień m Portuguese: semana f Romanian: săptămână f Russian: неделя (nedélja) f, недели (nedéli) pl Serbian: седмица (sedmica) f Slovak: týždeň m Slovene: teden m, pl tednov Spanish: semana f (es) Swedish: vecka c Tagalog: linggo Thai: สัตวาร (sàt waan), สัปดาห์ (sàp daa), อาทิตย์ (aa thīt) Turkish: hafta Ukrainian: тиждень (týžden’) m wythnos Wolof: ayubés Yiddish: וואָך (voəkh)

See also

• fortnight

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Dutch

Etymology

See English etymology above

Pronunciation

/weIk/

Noun

1. A period of seven days, week

Adverb

1. soft

Verb

1. present tense singular of weken (to soak)
2. past tense singular of wijken (to make way)