Etymology

weeker

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Today it means: Someone who participates in something for a certain number of weeks. Full definition →

English week ← Middle English wyke ← Old English wice
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*weyg-
  2. Proto-Germanic*wikǭ
  3. Proto-West Germanic*wikā
  4. Old Englishwice
  5. Middle Englishwyke
  6. Englishweek
  7. English todayweeker

From week + -er.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.