Week
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English
Pronunciation
- AHD: wēk
- IPA: /wiːk/
- SAMPA: /wi:k/
Homophones
Etymology
From Old English wicu, from a German *wikon, which probably originally meant something like turn or succession. Related to a verb *wikanan (bend). The Dutch noun derives from a related verb *waikwaz (yield), via the current Dutch form wijken.
Related words are Old German wohha (modern German Woche), old Dutch weke (week), Old Saxon wika, Old Norse vika, Gothic wikô (turn for temple service).
Count noun
Related terms
Translations
- Albanian: javë
- Arabic: إسبوع
- Breton: sizhun f -ioù
- Catalan: setmana f
- Chinese: 星期 (pinyin: xīngqī, Cantonese: singkei), 週 / 周 (zhou)
- Czech: týden m
- Danish: uge
- Dutch: week
- Esperanto: semajno
- Estonian: nädal
- Faroese: vika f
- Finnish: viikko
- French: semaine
- Frisian: wike
- German: Woche f
- Greek: εβδομάδα (evdomada)
- Guarani: arapokõindy
- Hebrew: שבוע
- Hungarian: hét
- Icelandic: vika f
- Indonesian: minggu
- Interlingua: septimana
- Italian: settimana f
- Japanese: 週 (しゅう, shū), 週間 (しゅうかん, shūkan)
- Latin: SEPTIMANA
- Lithuanian: savaitė f
- Norwegian (bokmål): uke m/f
- Norwegian (nynorsk): veke f
- Polish: tydzień
- Portuguese: semana f
- Romanian: săptămână f
- Russian: неделя
- Slovak: týždeň m
- Spanish: semana f
- Swedish: vecka
- Tagalog: linggo
- Wolof: Ayubés
- Yiddish: וואָך
See also
Dutch
Etymology
See English etymology above
Pronunciation
/weIk/
Noun
Adverb
Verb
- Present tense singular of weken (to soak)
- Past tense singular of wijken (to make way)
