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Imitative.

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *weyg-der. Proto-Germanic *wikǭ Proto-West Germanic *wikā Old English wiċe Middle English wyke English week From Middle English wyke, weke, from Old English wiċe, 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”). Cognates 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.

367 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Abkhaz: амчыбжь (amčəbž) — period of seven days
• Afar: ayam — period of seven days
• Afrikaans: week — period of seven days
• Albanian: javë — period of seven days
• Southern Altai: јети конок (ǰeti konok) — period of seven days
• Amharic: ሳምንት (samnət) — period of seven days
• Arabic: أُسْبُوع (ʔusbūʕ) — period of seven days
• Arabic: جُمْعَة (jumʕa) — period of seven days
• Arabic: اسبوع (ʔesbūʕ) — period of seven days
• Arabic: إسبوع (ʔisbūʕ) — period of seven days
• Arabic: أُسبوع (ʔusbūʕ) — period of seven days
• Arabic: سيمانة (sīmāna) — period of seven days
• Arabic: أُسبوع (ʔusbūʕ) — period of seven days
• Arabic: جمعة (jamʕa) — period of seven days
• Arabic: جمعة (jimʕa) — period of seven days
• Aragonese: semana — period of seven days
• Aramaic: ܫܒܘܥܐ — period of seven days
• Aramaic: ܫܒܬܐ — period of seven days
• Armenian: շաբաթ (šabatʻ) — period of seven days
• Aromanian: siptãmãnã — period of seven days
• Aromanian: stãmãnã — period of seven days
• Aromanian: stãmene — period of seven days
• Assamese: সপ্তাহ (xoptah) — period of seven days
• Asturian: selmana — period of seven days
• Asturian: sermana — period of seven days
• Asturian: semana — period of seven days
• Asturian: semá — period of seven days
• Asturian: sumana — period of seven days
• Avar: анкь (ankklʼ) — period of seven days
• Azerbaijani: həftə — period of seven days
• Azerbaijani: yeddinək — period of seven days
• Bashkir: аҙна (aźna) — period of seven days
• Basque: aste — period of seven days
• Belarusian: ты́дзень (týdzjenʹ) — period of seven days
• Bengali: সপ্তাহ (śoptaho) — period of seven days
• Bhojpuri: 𑂮𑂣𑂹𑂞𑂰𑂯 (saptāh) — period of seven days
• Bhojpuri: हप्ता (haptā) — period of seven days
• Breton: sizhun — period of seven days
• Bulgarian: се́дмица (sédmica) — period of seven days
• Burmese: ရက်သတ္တပတ် (raksatta.pat) — period of seven days
• Burmese: တစ်ပတ် (tacpat) — period of seven days
• Buryat: долоон хоног (doloon xonog) — period of seven days
• Carpathian Rusyn: ты́ждень (tŷ́ždenʹ) — period of seven days
• Catalan: setmana — period of seven days
• Cebuano: semana — period of seven days
• Chechen: кӏира (kʼira) — period of seven days
• Cherokee: ᏑᎾᏙᏓᏆᏍᏗ (sunadodaquasdi) — period of seven days
• Chichewa: mlungu — period of seven days
• Chichewa: sabata — period of seven days
• Chinese Cantonese: 星期 — period of seven days
• Chinese Cantonese: 禮拜 /礼拜 (lai5 baai3) — period of seven days
• Chinese: щинчи (xinqi) — period of seven days
• Chinese: чи (qi) — period of seven days
• Eastern Min Chinese: 禮拜 /礼拜 (lā̤-bái) — period of seven days
• Hakka Chinese: 禮拜 /礼拜 (lî-pai) — period of seven days
• Chinese: 禮拜 /礼拜 (lé-pài) — period of seven days
• Chinese Mandarin: 星期 (xīngqī) — period of seven days
• Chinese Mandarin: 週 /周 (zhōu) — period of seven days
• Chinese Mandarin: 禮拜 /礼拜 (lǐbài) — period of seven days
• Wu Chinese: 星期 (1shin-ji6) — period of seven days
• Wu Chinese: 禮拜 /礼拜 — period of seven days
• Chuvash: эрне (erne) — period of seven days
• West Circassian: тхьамафэ (tḥamafɛ) — period of seven days
• Ngazidja Comorian: mfumo — period of seven days
• Corsican: settimana — period of seven days
• Corsican: sittimana — period of seven days
• Corsican: simana — period of seven days
• Crimean Tatar: afta — period of seven days
• Czech: týden — period of seven days
• Dalmatian: jedma — period of seven days
• Dalmatian: setemúna — period of seven days
• Dalmatian: setimuón — period of seven days
• Danish: uge — period of seven days
• Dhivehi: ހަފްތާ (haftā) — period of seven days
• Dutch: week — period of seven days
• Emilian: stmèna — period of seven days
• Erzya: тарго (targo) — period of seven days
• Erzya: недля (nedľa) — period of seven days
• Esperanto: semajno — period of seven days
• Estonian: nädal — period of seven days
• Fala: semana — period of seven days
• Faroese: vika — period of seven days
• Fijian: macava — period of seven days
• Finnish: viikko — period of seven days
• Franco-Provençal: semana — period of seven days
• French: semaine — period of seven days
• French: huit jours — period of seven days
• Old French: semeine — period of seven days
• Old French: semaine — period of seven days
• North Frisian: weg — period of seven days
• West-Frisian: wike — period of seven days
• Friulian: setemane — period of seven days
• Galician: semana — period of seven days
• Galician: semá — period of seven days
• Galician: semán — period of seven days
• Galician: somana — period of seven days
• Galician: domá — period of seven days
• Georgian: კვირა (ḳvira) — period of seven days
• German: Woche — period of seven days
• Gilbertese: wiki — period of seven days
• Gothic: 𐍅𐌹𐌺𐍉 (wikō) — period of seven days
• Greek: εβδομάδα (evdomáda) — period of seven days
• Greek: επταήμερο (eptaḯmero) — period of seven days
• Greek: εφταήμερο (eftaḯmero) — period of seven days
• Ancient Greek: ἑβδομάς (hebdomás) — period of seven days
• Paraguayan Guarani: arapokõindy — period of seven days
• Gujarati: અઠવાડિયું (aṭhavāḍiyũ) — period of seven days
• Gujarati: સપ્તાહ (saptāh) — period of seven days
• Gujarati: હપતો (hapto) — period of seven days
• Haitian Creole: semèn — period of seven days
• Hausa: mako — period of seven days
• Hawaiian: pule — period of seven days
• Hebrew: שבוע — period of seven days
• Hebrew: שָׁבוּעַ (shavúa) — period of seven days
• Hindi: सप्ताह (saptāh) — period of seven days
• Hindi: हफ़्ता (haftā) — period of seven days
• White Hmong: lis tiam — period of seven days
• Hungarian: hét — period of seven days
• Icelandic: vika — period of seven days
• Ido: semano — period of seven days
• Indonesian: minggu — period of seven days
• Indonesian: pekan — period of seven days
• Ingush: кӏира (kʼira) — period of seven days
• Interlingua: septimana — period of seven days
• Irish: seachtain — period of seven days
• Old Irish: sechtmain — period of seven days
• Istro-Romanian: šetimana — period of seven days
• Italian: settimana — period of seven days
• Japanese: 週 (shū) — period of seven days
• Japanese: 週間 (shūkan) — period of seven days
• Kalmyk: долан хонг (dolan xong) — period of seven days
• Kannada: ವಾರ (vāra) — period of seven days
• Karachay-Balkar: ыйыкъ (ıyıq) — period of seven days
• Karelian: nedali — period of seven days
• Karelian: nedäli — period of seven days
• Kashmiri: ہَفتہٕ (haftụ) — period of seven days
• Kashubian: tidzéń — period of seven days
• Kazakh: апта (apta) — period of seven days
• Kazakh: жұма (jūma) — period of seven days
• Khmer: សប្តាហៈ (sapphdaahaʼ) — period of seven days
• Khmer: អាទិត្យ (ʼaatɨt) — period of seven days
• Khmer: សត្តាហៈ (sattaahaʼ) — period of seven days
• Khmer: សប្តាហ៍ (sappədaa) — period of seven days
• Komi-Permyak: недель (ńeďeľ) — period of seven days
• Komi-Permyak: вежон (vežon) — period of seven days
• Komi-Zyrian: вежон (vežon) — period of seven days
• Korean: 주 (ju) — period of seven days
• Korean: 주일 (ju'il) — period of seven days
• Central Kurdish: حەفتە (ḧefte) — period of seven days
• Northern Kurdish: hefte — period of seven days
• Northern Kurdish: heftî — period of seven days
• Kyrgyz: апта (apta) — period of seven days
• Kyrgyz: жума (juma) — period of seven days
• Kyrgyz: жетикүн (jetikün) — period of seven days
• Ladin: ena — period of seven days
• Ladin: setemena — period of seven days
• Ladino: semana — period of seven days
• Ladino: סימאנה — period of seven days
• Lak: нужмяр (nužmaʕr) — period of seven days
• Lao: ສັບດາ (sap dā) — period of seven days
• Lao: ສັບປະດາ (sap pa dā) — period of seven days
• Lao: ອາທິດ (ʼā thit) — period of seven days
• Lao: ສັດຕາຫະ (sat tā ha) — period of seven days
• Latgalian: nedeļa — period of seven days
• Latin: hebdomas — period of seven days
• Latin: septimāna — period of seven days
• Latvian: nedēļa — period of seven days
• Leonese: selmana — period of seven days
• Lezgi: гьафте (hafte) — period of seven days
• Limburgish: waek — period of seven days
• Lindu: minggu — period of seven days
• Lingala: mposo — period of seven days
• Lithuanian: savaitė — period of seven days
• Livonian: nädīļ — period of seven days
• Louisiana Creole: lasmènn — period of seven days
• Louisiana Creole: smènn — period of seven days
• Low German: Week — period of seven days
• Luganda: sabbiiti — period of seven days
• Luxembourgish: Woch — period of seven days
• Macedonian: седмица (sedmica) — period of seven days
• Macedonian: недела (nedela) — period of seven days
• Magahi: 𑂮𑂣𑂹𑂞𑂰𑂯 (saptāh) — period of seven days
• Maguindanao: saka padian — period of seven days
• Maithili: सप्ताह (saptāh) — period of seven days
• Maithili: अठबार (aṭhəbār) — period of seven days
• Malagasy: herinandro — period of seven days
• Malay: minggu — period of seven days
• Malay: pekan — period of seven days
• Malay: jemaat — period of seven days
• Malay: jumaat — period of seven days
• Malayalam: ആഴ്ച (āḻca) — period of seven days
• Maltese: ġimgħa — period of seven days
• Northern Mansi: са̄т (sāt) — period of seven days
• Manx: shiaghtin — period of seven days
• Māori: wiki — period of seven days
• Maranao: padiqan — period of seven days
• Marathi: आठवडा (āṭhavḍā) — period of seven days
• Eastern Mari: арня (arńa) — period of seven days
• Mauritian Creole: semenn — period of seven days
• Megleno-Romanian: săptămănă — period of seven days
• Megleno-Romanian: săptămǫnă — period of seven days
• Megleno-Romanian: sămǫnă — period of seven days
• Megleno-Romanian: smǫnă — period of seven days
• Mirandese: sumana — period of seven days
• Mòcheno: boch — period of seven days
• Moksha: недяля (nedälä) — period of seven days
• Moksha: тарга (targa) — period of seven days
• Mongo: eyenga — period of seven days
• Mongolian: долоо хоног (doloo xonog) — period of seven days
• Mongolian: гариг (garig) — period of seven days
• Mongolian: ᠳᠣᠯᠤᠭ᠎ᠠ ᠬᠣᠨᠤᠭ (doluɣ-a konuɣ) — period of seven days
• Mongolian: ᠭᠠᠷᠠᠭ (ɣaraɣ) — period of seven days
• Nahuatl: chicōntōnalli — period of seven days
• Nalca: minggu — period of seven days
• Navajo: damį́įgo — period of seven days
• Navajo: damóo — period of seven days
• Neapolitan: semmana — period of seven days
• Neapolitan: semana — period of seven days
• Nepali: हप्ता (haptā) — period of seven days
• Ngombe (Congo): eyenga — period of seven days
• Norman: s'maine — period of seven days
• Norman: s'môine — period of seven days
• Norwegian Bokmål: uke — period of seven days
• Norwegian Nynorsk: veke — period of seven days
• Norwegian Nynorsk: vika (Høgnorsk) — period of seven days
• Occitan: setmana — period of seven days
• Odia: ସପ୍ତାହ (saptāha) — period of seven days
• Ojibwe: anamiʼe-giizhik — period of seven days
• Church Slavic: седмица (sedmica) — period of seven days
• Old East Slavic: тꙑижьдьнь (tyižĭdĭnĭ) — period of seven days
• Old East Slavic: тꙑжьдьнь (tyžĭdĭnĭ) — period of seven days
• Old English: wiċe — period of seven days
• Old Navarro-Aragonese: semana — period of seven days
• Old Norse: vika — period of seven days
• Old Saxon: wika — period of seven days
• Oromo: torbee — period of seven days
• Ossetian: къуыри — period of seven days
• Pannonian Rusyn: тидзень (tidzenʹ) — period of seven days
• Papiamentu: siman — period of seven days
• Pashto: اونۍ (onəy) — period of seven days
• Persian: هَفْتَه (hafta) — period of seven days
• Dari: هَفْتَه (hafta) — period of seven days
• Iranian Persian: هَفْتِه (hafte) — period of seven days
• Middle Persian: 𐭤𐭯𐭲𐭪 — period of seven days
• Piedmontese: sman-a — period of seven days
• Plautdietsch: Wäakj — period of seven days
• Polish: tydzień — period of seven days
• Portuguese: semana — period of seven days
• Punjabi: ਹਫ਼ਤੇ (hafte) — period of seven days
• Quechua: simana — period of seven days
• Quechua: hunk'a — period of seven days
• Quechua: qanchischaw — period of seven days
• Rapa Nui: tāpati — period of seven days
• Rohingya: hafta — period of seven days
• Romagnol: stmana — period of seven days
• Romani: kurko — period of seven days
• Romanian: săptămână — period of seven days
• Romansh: emna — period of seven days
• Romansh: emda — period of seven days
• Romansh: jamna — period of seven days
• Romansh: eamda — period of seven days
• Russian: неде́ля (nedélja) — period of seven days
• Sabir: settimana — period of seven days
• Saho: liggidina — period of seven days
• Inari-Sami: okko — period of seven days
• Northern Sami: vahkku — period of seven days
• Skolt-Sami: neäʹttel — period of seven days
• Southern Sami: våhkoe — period of seven days
• Samoan: vāiaso — period of seven days
• Sanskrit: सप्ताह (saptāha) — period of seven days
• Sardinian: chída — period of seven days
• Sardinian: chida — period of seven days
• Sardinian: chita — period of seven days
• Sardinian: cida — period of seven days
• Sardinian: cira — period of seven days
• Scots: wouk — period of seven days
• Scottish Gaelic: seachdain — period of seven days
• Serbo-Croatian: недеља — period of seven days
• Serbo-Croatian: нѐдјеља — period of seven days
• Serbo-Croatian: нѐђеља — period of seven days
• Serbo-Croatian: те̏дан — period of seven days
• Serbo-Croatian: тје̏дан — period of seven days
• Serbo-Croatian: сѐдмица — period of seven days
• Serbo-Croatian: nèdelja — period of seven days
• Serbo-Croatian: nèdjelja — period of seven days
• Serbo-Croatian: nèđelja — period of seven days
• Serbo-Croatian: tȅdan — period of seven days
• Serbo-Croatian: tjȅdan — period of seven days
• Serbo-Croatian: sèdmica — period of seven days
• Seychellois Creole: semenn — period of seven days
• Sicilian: simana — period of seven days
• Silesian: tydźyń — period of seven days
• Sinhalese: සතිය (satiya) — period of seven days
• Slovak: týždeň — period of seven days
• Slovene: téden — period of seven days
• Somali: toddobaad — period of seven days
• Lower Sorbian: tyźeń — period of seven days
• Upper Sorbian: tydźeń — period of seven days
• Spanish: semana — period of seven days
• Old Spanish: semana — period of seven days
• Old Spanish: setmana — period of seven days
• Sranan Tongo: wiki — period of seven days
• Swahili: wiki — period of seven days
• Swahili: juma — period of seven days
• Swedish: vecka — period of seven days
• Tagalog: linggo — period of seven days
• Tagalog: semana — period of seven days
• Tahitian: hepetoma — period of seven days
• Tajik: ҳафта (hafta) — period of seven days
• Tamil: கிழமை (kiḻamai) — period of seven days
• Tamil: வாரம் (vāram) — period of seven days
• Taos: tumį́ku — period of seven days
• Tarantino: sumáne — period of seven days
• Tarantino: sumana — period of seven days
• Tatar: атна (atna) — period of seven days
• Tausug: pitu — period of seven days
• Telugu: వారము (vāramu) — period of seven days
• Tetum: semana — period of seven days
• Thai: สัปดาห์ (sàp-daa) — period of seven days
• Thai: อาทิตย์ (aa-tít) — period of seven days
• Thai: สัตวาร — period of seven days
• Thai: สัตตาห — period of seven days
• Tibetan: བདུན་ཕྲག (bdun phrag) — period of seven days
• Tigrinya: ሰሙን (sämun) — period of seven days
• Tok Pisin: wik — period of seven days
• Tswana: beke — period of seven days
• Tumbuka: sabata — period of seven days
• Turkish: hafta — period of seven days
• Turkish: yedil — period of seven days
• Turkmen: hepde — period of seven days
• Tuvan: чеди хонук (çedi xonuk) — period of seven days
• Tuvan: неделя (nedelya) — period of seven days
• Tuvan: чедилик (çedilik) — period of seven days
• Udi: шаматӏ (šamaṭ) — period of seven days
• Udmurt: арня (arńa) — period of seven days
• Ukrainian: ти́ждень (týždenʹ) — period of seven days
• Urdu: ہَفْتَہ (hafta) — period of seven days
• Urdu: سَپْتاہ (saptāh) — period of seven days
• Uyghur: ھەپتە (hepte) — period of seven days
• Uzbek: hafta — period of seven days
• Venda: vhege — period of seven days
• Venetan: setimana — period of seven days
• Venetan: stemana — period of seven days
• Venetan: stimana — period of seven days
• Venetan: setemana — period of seven days
• Vietnamese: tuần — period of seven days
• Vietnamese: tuần lễ — period of seven days
• Volapük: vig — period of seven days
• Walloon: samwinne — period of seven days
• Walloon: samaîun — period of seven days
• Welsh: wythnos — period of seven days
• Wolof: ayubés — period of seven days
• Wolof: besboai — period of seven days
• Xhosa: veki — period of seven days
• Yaghnobi: ҳафта (hafta) — period of seven days
• Yakut: нэдиэлэ (nediele) — period of seven days
• Yao (Africa): ci-juma — period of seven days
• Yiddish: וואָך (vokh) — period of seven days
• Yoruba: ọ̀sẹ̀ — period of seven days
• Zazaki: hefte (diq) — period of seven days
• Zazaki: hewte (diq) — period of seven days
• Zhuang: singhgiz — period of seven days
• Zhuang: singgeiz — period of seven days
• Zhuang: lijbai — period of seven days
• Zhuang: cou — period of seven days
• Zulu: iviki — period of seven days
• ǃXóõ: bìikì — period of seven days