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week

Pronunciation: /ʋeːk/

“week” is a Dutch word. Its 3 meanings in English:

noun

  1. week, period of seven days

adjective

  1. soft, tender, fragile
  2. weak, gentle, weakhearted

Etymology

From Middle Dutch wēke, from Old Dutch *wica, from Proto-West Germanic *wikā, from Proto-Germanic *wikǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *weyg- (“to bend, wind, turn, yield”).

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