Week

Low German

Alternative forms

• Wääk (most northern dialects)
• Wäke, Weke (non-apocopating northern dialects; Weke also Eastphalian)
• Wiäke, Weake (Westphalian)

Etymology

From Middle Low German wēke, from Old Saxon wika, from Proto-Germanic *wikǭ. Westphalian requires Old Saxon *weka (cf. Old High German wëhha and Limburgish waek), Eastphalian requires wika, other dialects are inconclusive.

Noun

Week f (plural Weken or Week) (some northern dialects, including Hamburgisch)

1. week

North Frisian

Alternative forms

• waag (Mooring)
• weg (Föhr-Amrum)

Etymology

From Old Frisian wike, from Proto-West Germanic *wikā, from Proto-Germanic *wikǭ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [veːk]

Noun

Week f (plural Weeken)

1. (Sylt) week