*wikǭ

Runic: ᚹᛁᚲᛟ Pronunciation: /ˈwi.kɔ̃ː/

noun · feminine · ōn-stem

Meanings

sequence
week

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *weyg- (‘to bend, wind, turn, yield’), with semantic shift "to bend, give way" > "to shift" > "sequence, week". See also *wīkwaną (‘to yield, retreat’). The concept of a week was borrowed by the Germanic peoples from the Romans around the 1st century.

Declension

Case	Singular	Plural
Nom.	wikǭ	wikōniz
Acc.	wikōnų	wikōnunz
Gen.	wikōniz	wikōnǫ̂
Dat.	wikōni	wikōmaz
Inst.	wikōnē	wikōmiz
Voc.	wikǭ	wikōniz

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Descendants

*wikā (Proto-West Germanic)
- *wica (Old Dutch)
  - wēke (Middle Dutch)
    - waek (Limburgish)
*wikā (Proto-West Germanic)
- *wica (Old Dutch)
  - wēke (Middle Dutch)
    - week (Dutch)
      - week (Afrikaans)
      - weki (Berbice Creole Dutch)
      - wêk (Jersey Dutch)
      - wiki (Lokono)
      - week (Negerhollands)
*wikā (Proto-West Germanic)
- *wica (Old Dutch)
  - wēke (Middle Dutch)
    - week (Dutch)
      - wiki (Sranan Tongo)
        
        wiki (Aukan)
        
        wíki (Saramaccan)
*wikā (Proto-West Germanic)
- wiċe, wicu, wucu, wuce, wieċe, weoce (Old English)
  - wyke (Middle English)
    - wick, wik (Yola)
*wikā (Proto-West Germanic)
- wiċe, wicu, wucu, wuce, wieċe, weoce (Old English)
  - wyke (Middle English)
    - week (English)
      - wiki (Maori)
      - wiki (Swahili)
*wikā (Proto-West Germanic)
- wiċe, wicu, wucu, wuce, wieċe, weoce (Old English)
  - wyke (Middle English)
    - week (English)
      - weik (Middle Scots)
        
        week (Scots)
*wikā (Proto-West Germanic)
- wiċe, wicu, wucu, wuce, wieċe, weoce (Old English)
  - wyke (Middle English)
    - wouk, ouk (Middle Scots)
      - ouk (Scots)
*wikā (Proto-West Germanic)
- wike (Old Frisian)
  - ? (North Frisian)
  - Wíek (Saterland Frisian)
  - wike (West Frisian)
*wikā (Proto-West Germanic)
- wëhha, wëcha, wohha, wocha (Old High German)
  - woche, wuche, wëche (Middle High German)
    - Woche (German)
    - woch (Vilamovian)
    - וואָך (vokh) (Yiddish)
*wikā (Proto-West Germanic)
- wëhha, wëcha, wohha, wocha (Old High German)
  - woche, wuche, wëche (Middle High German)
    - ? (Alemannic German)
      - bòchò, wuchu, wucha, wucchu (Italian Walser)
*wikā (Proto-West Germanic)
- wëhha, wëcha, wohha, wocha (Old High German)
  - woche, wuche, wëche (Middle High German)
    - Woch, Wocha, Wochn (Bavarian)
      - bòcha, boch (Cimbrian)
      - boch (Mòcheno)
*wikā (Proto-West Germanic)
- wëhha, wëcha, wohha, wocha (Old High German)
  - woche, wuche, wëche (Middle High German)
    - Woch, Wech, Wääch (Central Franconian)
      - Woch (Hunsrik)
      - Woch (Luxembourgish)
*wikā (Proto-West Germanic)
- wëhha, wëcha, wohha, wocha (Old High German)
  - woche, wuche, wëche (Middle High German)
    - ? (Rhine Franconian)
      - Woch (Pennsylvania German)
*wikā (Proto-West Germanic)
- wika (Old Saxon)
  - wēke (Middle Low German)
    - Week (German Low German)
    - Wäakj (Plautdietsch)
vika (Old Norse)
- wiku, wikå (Elfdalian)
- vika (Faroese)
- vika (Icelandic)
- vuku (Jamtish)
- voga (Norn)
- veke, vika, viku, vyku, vuku, væka, vekke, vikke (Norwegian Nynorsk)
vika (Old Norse)
- uka, uku, wiku (Old Danish)
  - uga (Scanian)
vika (Old Norse)
- uka, uku, wiku (Old Danish)
  - uge (Danish)
    - uke, uge, uga (Norwegian Bokmål)
vika (Old Norse)
- wika (Old Gutnish)
  - vike, vika, viku, vikå (Gutnish)
vika (Old Norse)
- vika (Old Swedish)
  - vecka (Swedish)
𐍅𐌹𐌺𐍉 (wikō) (Gothic)
*vëkkō (Proto-Samic)
*viikko (Proto-Finnic)

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