keskiviikko

Etymology

keski- (“mid-, middle”) +‎ viikko (“week”), a calque either of Middle Low German middewēke (compare modern German Mittwoch), or of a seemingly unattested Old Swedish word (compare Old Norse miðvikudagr (literally “mid-week day”)). Note that Wednesday was the middle of the seven-day week when Sunday was still the first day of the week in Finland prior to 1973.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkeskiˌʋiːkːo/, [ˈk̟e̞s̠k̟iˌʋiːkːo̞]

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• Rhymes: -iːkːo
• Syllabification^(key): kes‧ki‧viik‧ko

Noun

keskiviikko

1. Wednesday (day of the week; the third day of the week in Finland and in the ISO 8601 standard)

Further reading

• “keskiviikko”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02