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Added 1 October 2026

week

/wiːk/ noun

In Latin: hebdomas, septimāna Wiktionary

noun Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about week at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

Any period of seven consecutive days.
A period of seven days beginning with Sunday or Monday.
A period of five days beginning with Monday.

interjection

The squeal of a pig.

Origin

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”).

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