WEEKとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: wēk, IPA: /wiːk/
• (General American) IPA: /wik/
• Homophone: weak
• 韻: -iːk

語源 1

From 中期英語 wyke, weke, from 古期英語 wiċe, wucu (“week”), from Proto-West Germanic *wikā, from Proto-Germanic *wikǭ (“turn, succession, change, week”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyg-, *weyk- (“to bend, wind, turn, yield”). Related to Proto-Germanic *wīkaną (“to bend, yield, cease”).

Cognate with Saterland Frisian Wiek, West Frisian wike, Dutch week, German Woche, Danish uge, Norwegian Nynorsk veke, Swedish vecka, Icelandic vika, Gothic 𐍅𐌹𐌺𐍉 (wikō, “turn for temple service”), Latin vicis, Finnish viikko. Related also to 古期英語 wīcan (“to yield, give way”), English weak and wick.

別の表記

• weeke (obsolete)

名詞

week (plural weeks)

1. Any period of seven consecutive days.

   Alternative forms: wk, wks (symbols)

   Synonyms: sevennight (archaic), sennight (archaic), hebdomad (obsolete)

   Holonyms: megasecond < fortnight < month < year < gigasecond < century < kiloannum, kiloyear, millennium < terasecond < mega-annum, megayear < petasecond < giga-annum, gigayear < exasecond < zettasecond < yottasecond < ronnasecond < quettasecond

   Meronyms: quectosecond < rontosecond < yoctosecond < zeptosecond < attosecond < femtosecond < picosecond < nanosecond < microsecond < millisecond < centisecond < decisecond < second < decasecond < minute < hectosecond < kilosecond < hour < day, weekday < weekend

   • 2013 July 6, “The rise of smart beta”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8843, page 68:

     Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recent weeks but they are still unattractive. Equities have suffered two big bear markets since 2000 and are wobbling again. It is hardly surprising that pension funds, insurers and endowments are searching for new sources of return.

2. A period of seven days beginning with Sunday or Monday.
3. A period of five days beginning with Monday.
4. A subdivision of the month into longer periods of work days punctuated by shorter weekend periods of days for markets, rest, or religious observation such as a sabbath.

   A 4-day week consists of Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.

5. (following a named day) A date seven days after (sometimes before) the specified day.

   I'll see you Thursday week. [a week on Thursday, i.e. Thursday after next]

   The wedding is tomorrow week. [a week tomorrow, i.e. in eight days' time]

派生語

派生した語

• → Maori: wiki
• → Middle Scots: weik
  • Scots: week
• → Swahili: wiki

参考

• days of the week (appendix): Sunday · Monday · Tuesday · Wednesday · Thursday · Friday · Saturday
• calendar
• Sabbath

Further reading

• ISO 8601 on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

語源 2

Imitative.

間投詞

week

1. The squeal of a pig.
   • 1837, William Evans Burton, Burton's Comic Songster, page 229:

     And ho, ho, ho, went Mister Pig, and week, week, week, went she; […]

   • 1848, The Garland, Or, Token of Friendship, page 231:

     […] his head came a-top of one of a litter of young pigs that happened at that moment to be foraging about: week! week! week! week! week! cried little piggy.