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weekly

/ˈwikli/WEE-klee
/ˈwikli/WEE-klee

Meaningof each week

Common meaning: happening once a week

Journey through time

  1. Old EnglishwicesourceB&T
  2. Middle Englishwekesource
  3. Englishweek‘seven days’
  4. Englishformed in English from weekweekly‘happening once a week’ · today

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
  • No UK recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-GB voice.
  • US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
  • No US recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-US voice.

Origin: Formed in English from week + -ly.

Dictionary: Skeat (1898), WEEK, p.701 · scan

Source words

  • wice Old English · source word “a turn, a week”

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