weke

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Afrikaans

Noun

weke

  1. plural of week

Dutch

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -eːkə

Adjective

weke

  1. inflection of week:
    1. masculine/feminine singular attributive
    2. definite neuter singular attributive
    3. plural attributive

Verb

weke

  1. (dated or formal) singular past subjunctive of wijken

Verb

weke

  1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of weken

Anagrams

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *wika, from Proto-West Germanic *wikā.

Noun

wēke f

  1. week

Inflection

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Descendants

  • Dutch: week
    • Afrikaans: week
    • Berbice Creole Dutch: weki
    • Jersey Dutch: wêk
    • Negerhollands: week
    • → Lokono: wiki
    • →? Sranan Tongo: wiki
  • Limburgish: waek

Further reading

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English wiċe, wucu; from Proto-West Germanic *wikā, from Proto-Germanic *wikǭ.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • (mainly Early ME) IPA(key): /ˈwik(ə)/, /ˈwuk(ə)/
  • IPA(key): /ˈweːk(ə)/, /ˈwoːk(ə)/

Noun

weke (plural wekes or weken)

  1. week (a duration of seven days from Sunday to Saturday; a calendar week)
  2. week (any duration of (around) seven days)
  3. (six-day) workweek (a duration of six days from Monday to Saturday)
Derived terms
Descendants
References

Etymology 2

From Old English wēoce, from Proto-West Germanic *weukā (“flax bundle, wick”), from Proto-Indo-European *weg- (“to weave”), see also West Frisian wjok, wjuk (“wing”), Dutch wiek (“wing; propeller, blade; wick”), German Wieche (“wisp; wick”).

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈweːk(ə)/, /ˈwik(ə)/

Noun

weke

  1. A candlewick or wick.
  2. The cord or rope used to create wicks; wicking.
  3. Wicking used in medical contexts (e.g. as a bandage).
  4. A kind of low-quality textile.
Descendants
References
  1. ^ “wẹ̄̆k(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-11.
  2. ^ Guus Kroonen, The Proto-Germanic n-stems: A study in diachronic morphophonology (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2011), 160–1.

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Old Norse vǫkva (“moisture”), from vǫkr (“wet”).

Pronunciation

Noun

weke

  1. (rare) wetness
References

Etymology 4

Adjective

weke

  1. (Northern) Alternative form of quyk

Etymology 5

Adjective

weke

  1. Alternative form of weyk
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