Week vs Welk - What's the difference?
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Any period of seven consecutive days.
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A period of seven days beginning with Sunday or Monday.
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.(rfex)
Seven days after ((sometimes) before) a specified date.
(obsolete) Of a plant: to wither, wilt, decay.
(obsolete) To diminish; to lose brightness, to wane.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.i.23:
* Milton
(dialectal) to soak, .
(dialectal) to thrash, beat severely.
To contract; to shorten.
* Spenser
As nouns the difference between week and welk
is that week is any period of seven consecutive days while welk is .As a verb welk is
(obsolete) of a plant: to wither, wilt, decay.week
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(wikipedia week) (en noun)Derived terms
* bush week * for weeks on end * hell week * Holy Week * weekend * weeklySee also
* * fortnight * month * nundinal cycle * yearExternal links
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(en verb)- As gentle Shepheard in sweete euentide, / When ruddy Phoebus gins to welke in west [...].
- The church, that before by insensible degrees welked and impaired, now with large steps went down hill decaying.
- Now sad winter welked hath the day.