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week
English
Alternative forms
- weeke (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English weke, from Old English wice, wucu (“week”), from Proto-Germanic *wik? (“turn, succession, change, week”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyg-, *weyk- (“to bend, wind, turn, yield”). Related to Proto-Germanic *w?kan? (“to bend, yield, cease”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Wiek, West Frisian wike, Dutch week, German Woche, Danish uge, Norwegian Nynorsk veke, Swedish vecka, Icelandic vika, Gothic ???????????????? (wik?, “turn for temple service”), Latin vicis. Related also to Old English w?can (“to yield, give way”), English weak and wick.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /wik/
- enPR: w?k, IPA(key): /wi?k/
- Rhymes: -i?k
- Homophone: weak
Noun
week (plural weeks)
- Any 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.
- Seven days after (sometimes before) a specified date.
Synonyms
- hebdomad, sennight
Hypernyms
- time, day, month, year
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- (days of the week) day of the week; Sunday,? Monday,? Tuesday,? Wednesday,? Thursday,? Friday,? Saturday (Category: en:Days of the week) [edit]
- Sabbath
- calendar
Further reading
- ISO 8601 on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch week, from Middle Dutch weke, from Old Dutch *wika, from Proto-Germanic *wik?, from Proto-Indo-European *weyg- (“to bend, wind, turn, yield”). Compare English week, West Frisian wike, German Woche.
Noun
week (plural weke)
- week
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?e?k/
- Hyphenation: week
- Rhymes: -e?k
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch w?ke, from Old Dutch *wika, from Proto-Germanic *wik?, from Proto-Indo-European *weyg- (“to bend, wind, turn, yield”).
Noun
week f (plural weken, diminutive weekje n)
- week
Derived terms
- feestweek
- van de week
- weekblad
- weekloon
- wekelijks
Descendants
- Afrikaans: week
Etymology 2
From Middle Dutch wêec, from Old Dutch *w?k, from Proto-Germanic *waikwaz.
Adjective
week (comparative weker, superlative weekst)
- soft, tender, fragile
- weak, gentle, weakhearted
Inflection
Antonyms
- hard
Derived terms
- weekdier
- weekheid
- weke delen (in Dutch plurale tantum): soft tissues
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
week
- first-person singular present indicative of weken
- imperative of weken
Verb
week
- singular past indicative of wijken
Anagrams
- weke
Middle English
Noun
week
- Alternative form of weke (“week”)
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every
English
Alternative forms
- ev’ry (poetic)
- euery (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English every, everich, eaver-euch, averiche, aver alche, ever ælche, from Old English ?fre ?l?, ?fre ??hwil?, ?fre ?ehwil? (“each and every”), equivalent to ever +? each and/or ever +? which.
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /??v.(?.)?i/
- Hyphenation: eve?ry, ev?e?ry
Determiner
every
- All of a countable group (considered individually), without exception.
- At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors. […] In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
- Denotes equal spacing at a stated interval, or a proportion corresponding to such a spacing.
- (with certain nouns) Denotes an abundance of something.
- We wish you every happiness in the future.
- I have every confidence in him.
- There is every reason why we should not go.
Synonyms
- each
- (slang) e'ry
Antonyms
- no
- none
Derived terms
Descendants
- Sranan Tongo: ibri
Translations
See also
- all
- each
Anagrams
- veery, verye, y'ever
Middle English
Adjective
every
- Alternative form of everich
- 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. General Prologue: 3-4.
- And bathed every veyne in swich licour,
- Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
- 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. General Prologue: 3-4.
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