Etymology

weekday

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Today it means: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday, but not Saturday or Sunday. Full definition →

Middle English wykeday ← Old English wicdæġ ← Proto-West Germanic *wikadag
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The story

  1. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*wikadagaz“weekday”
  2. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*wikadag
  3. Old English · inherited fromwicdæġ“weekday”
  4. Middle English · inherited fromwykeday
  5. English todayweekday

Inherited from Middle English wykeday, from Old English wicdæġ (“weekday”), from Proto-West Germanic *wikadag, from Proto-Germanic *wikadagaz (“weekday”). By surface analysis, compound of week + day. Compare West Frisian wikedei (“weekday”), Dutch weekdag (“weekday”), German Low German Wekendag (“weekday”), German Wochentag (“weekday”), Danish ugedag (“weekday”), Swedish veckodag (“weekday”), Norwegian ukedag (“weekday”), Faroese vikudagur (“weekday”), Icelandic vikudagur (“weekday”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.