week
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From Middle English weke < Old English wice < Proto-Germanic *wikon (“‘turn, succession’”) < Proto-Indo-European *weik (“‘to bend, wind’”). Related to Proto-Germanic *wikanan. The Dutch noun derives from a related verb *waikwaz, via the current Dutch form wijken 'to cede, give way'.
Related words are Old High German wohha (Modern German Woche), Old Frisian wike, Middle Dutch weke (“‘week’”), Old Saxon wika, Old Norse vika, Gothic 𐍅𐌹𐌺𐍉 (wikô), “‘turn for temple service’”), Old English wican (“‘to yield, give way’”).
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- Homophones: weak
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week (plural weeks)
- A period of seven days.
- The seven days beginning with Sunday or 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.
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ISO 8601 on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:ISO 8601- fortnight
- month
- nundinal cycle
- year
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week (plural weke)
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See English (cognate) etymology above
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week (plural weken, diminutive weekje, diminutive plural weekjes)
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week, weke (comparative weker, wekere; superlative weekst, weekste)
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week