keskiviikko

keski- (“mid-, middle”) +‎ viikko (“week”), a calque either of Middle Low German middewēke (compare modern German Mittwoch),^[1] or of a seemingly unattested Old Swedish word (compare Old Norse miðvikudagr (literally “mid-week day”)).^[2] 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.

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

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

keskiviikko

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

As with all days of the week in Finnish, the essive case (keskiviikkona) is usually used when talking about what will happen or happened on a Wednesday.

• (abbreviation) ke

• days of the week: viikonpäivä (appendix): maanantai · tiistai · keskiviikko · torstai · perjantai · lauantai · sunnuntai ^[edit]

• “keskiviikko”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[3] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023