Week

Low German

Alternative forms

  • Wääk (most northern dialects)
  • Wäke, Weke (non-apocopating northern dialects; Weke also Eastphalian)
  • Wiäke, Weake (Westphalian)

Etymology

From Middle Low German wēke, from Old Saxon wika, from Proto-Germanic *wikǭ. Westphalian requires Old Saxon *weka (cf. Old High German wëhha and Limburgish waek), Eastphalian requires wika, other dialects are inconclusive.

Noun

Week f (plural Weken or Week) (some northern dialects, including Hamburgisch)

  1. week

North Frisian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Frisian wike, from Proto-West Germanic *wikā, from Proto-Germanic *wikǭ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [veːk]

Noun

Week f (plural Weeken)

  1. (Sylt) week
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