Noun: wice
Gender: f
Genitive
| Singular | wican |
| Plural | wicena |
Dative
| Singular | wican |
| Plural | wicum |
Accusative
| Singular | wican |
| Plural | wican |
Sample Sentences
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The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
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An. DCCCCXL Hēr Æþelstān cyning forþfērde on Glēaweċestre...⁊ Æþelstān cyning rīcsode XIIII ġēar ⁊ tēon wucan. (Year 940 In this year King Athelstan died in Gloucester...he reigned for 14 years and ten weeks.)
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for ānre wican (a week ago)
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simle ymb þrēo wican (every three weeks)
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wican æfter wican (week after week)
Nouns inflected like wice
seohhe,
sneare,
snecce,
safine,
sceppe,
smitte,
smiþþe,
slyppe,
sloppe,
ylfete,
cynewiþþe,
alexandre,
hoppestre,
hennebelle,
gagelle,
gagille,
gagolle,
feldmore,
mynetsmiþþe,
fiþelestre, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *wikā, from Proto-Germanic *wikǭ. Cognate with Old Frisian wike, Old Saxon wika, Old High German wëhha, Old Norse vika, Gothic 𐍅𐌹𐌺𐍉 (wikō). See: Old Norse Nouns '
vika', Gothic Nouns '
𐍅𐌹𐌺𐍉'.
Verbs referencing "wice"
English Nouns
week, Middle English Nouns
wyke.
Translations