week – English noun declension

English noun forms of week

Noun: week
Singularweek
Pluralweeks

Sample Sentences

  • Holonyms: megasecond < fortnight < month < year < gigasecond < century < kiloannum, kiloyear, millennium < terasecond < mega-annum, megayear < petasecond < giga-annum, gigayear < exasecond < zettasecond < yottasecond < ronnasecond < quettasecond
  • Meronyms: quectosecond < rontosecond < yoctosecond < zeptosecond < attosecond < femtosecond < picosecond < nanosecond < microsecond < millisecond < centisecond < decisecond < second < decasecond < minute < hectosecond < kilosecond < hour < day, weekday < weekend
  • Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recent weeks but they are still unattractive. Equities have suffered two big bear markets since 2000 and are wobbling again. It is hardly surprising that pension funds, insurers and endowments are searching for new sources of return. [2013 July 6, “The rise of smart beta”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8843, archived from the original on 01 May 2024, page 68:]
  • Some of the same areas hit by tornadoes just a little over a week ago are expecting severe storms again Monday afternoon and evening. [2024 May 5, Allison Chinchar, “Multiday severe weather threat could continue tornado streak this week”, in CNN, archived from the original on 15 May 2024:]
  • A 4-day week consists of Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.
  • I'll see you Thursday week. [a week on Thursday, i.e. Thursday after next]
  • The wedding is tomorrow week. [a week tomorrow, i.e. in eight days' time]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *weyg-der.
3. Proto-Germanic *wikǭ
4. Proto-West Germanic *wikā
5. Old English wice
6. Middle English wyke
7. English week
8. From Middle English wyke, weke, from Old English wice, wucu (“week”), from Proto-West Germanic *wikā, from Proto-Germanic *wikǭ (“sequence; week”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyg-, *weyk- (“to bend, curve”). Related to weak and dialectal English wick (“corner”); see Proto-Germanic *wīk(w)aną (“to bend, yield, cease”).
9. Cognates
10. Cognate with Scots ouk, oulk (“week”), Yola wick, wik (“week”), North Frisian waag, Week, weg (“week”), Saterland Frisian Wiek, Wíek (“week”), West Frisian wike (“week”), Bavarian Wochn (“week”), Cimbrian boch, bòcha (“week”), Dutch week (“week”), German Woche (“week”), German Low German Week (“week”), Limburgish waek, Wéëk (“week”), Luxembourgish Woch (“week”), Mòcheno boch (“week”), Vilamovian woch (“week”), Yiddish וואָך (vokh, “week”), Danish uge (“week”), Elfdalian wiku, wikå (“week”), Faroese and Icelandic vika (“week”), Jamtish vuku (“week”), Norwegian Bokmål uke (“week”), Norwegian Nynorsk veke, vika, viku, vukku, vuku (“week”), Scanian uga (“week”), Swedish vecka (“week”), Gothic 𐍅𐌹𐌺𐍉 (wikō, “sequence; week”); also Cornish gwigh (“periwinkles, whelks”), Irish faocha, faochóg (“periwinkle”), Latin vicis (“alteration, turn; time”), Ancient Greek εἴκω (eíkō, “to yield”), Albanian vig (“bier, litter, stretcher”), Northern Kurdish avêtin, avitin, avîtin, havêtin, havîtin (“to cast, hurl, throw”), Persian آویختَن (âvixtan, “to hang, suspend”), بیختن (bēxtan / bixtan, “to sieve, sift”). Related also to Old English wīcan (“to yield, give way”), English weak and wick. See: Middle English Nouns 'wyke', Old English Nouns 'wice', Dutch Nouns 'week', German Nouns 'Woche', Danish Nouns 'uge', Norwegian Bokmål Nouns 'uke', Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns 'veke', Swedish Nouns 'vecka', Gothic Nouns '𐍅𐌹𐌺𐍉', Irish Nouns 'faocha', Latin Nouns 'vicis', Old English Nouns 'wīcan'.

Verbs referencing "week"

German Nouns Woche, Latin Nouns vicis, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns vuku.