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| ==Analogs in other languages== | |||
| In many languages, there is no single word for a two-week period, and the equivalent terms "two weeks", "14 days", or "15 days" (]) have to be used. | |||
| * ]: in ], the term ''pythefnos'', meaning "15 nights", is used. This is in keeping with the Welsh term for a week, which is ''wythnos'' ("eight nights").<ref>{{cite web |author1=BBC |title=BBC Wales - Catchphrase|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/catchphrase/ysbyty_brynaber/lessons/language/lang45.shtml|website=BBC Wales|access-date=18 November 2016|date=16 October 2014|quote=Wythnos is a week.}}</ref> In ], the term is ''coicís''. | |||
| * Similarly, in ], the term δεκαπενθήμερο (''dekapenthímero''), meaning "15 days", is used. | |||
| * The ] uses the ] word पक्ष "pakṣa", meaning one half of a ], which is between 14 and 15 solar days. | |||
| * In ] there are the terms ''quincena'' (or ''quince días'') in ] and ], ''quinzena'' or ''quinze dies'' in ] and ''quinze dias'' or ''quinzena'' in ], ''quindicina'' in ], '']'' or '']'' in ], and ''chenzină'' in ], all meaning "a grouping of 15"; there are also the terms ''bisettimanale'' in ], ''bisemanal'' in ], ''bissemanal'' in ], ''bisetmanal'' in ], ''bihebdomadaire'' in ], and ''bisǎptǎmânal'' in ], that literally mean "biweekly". | |||
| * ] have a special "doubling ]". When added at the end of the word for "week" it changes the meaning to "two weeks". In ], the single-word ''שבועיים'' (''shvu′ayim'') means exactly "two weeks". Also in ], by adding the common ] to the word for "week", ''أسبوع'', the form ''أسبوعين'' (''usbu′ayn''), meaning "two weeks", is formed. | |||
| * ]: in ] the terms ''čtrnáctidenní'' and ''dvoutýdenní'' have the same meaning as "fortnight".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.indifferentlanguages.com/words/fortnight|title=Do You Know How to Say Fortnight in Different Languages?|website=www.indifferentlanguages.com}}</ref> In ], the term ''два тижні'' is used in relation to "biweekly, two weeks". | |||
| ==See also== | ==See also== | ||
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Not to be confused with the video game Fortnite. For other uses, see Fortnight (disambiguation). Time period of two weeksA fortnight is a unit of time equal to 14 days (two weeks). The word derives from the Old English term fēowertīene niht, meaning "fourteen nights" (or "fourteen days", since the Anglo-Saxons counted by nights).
Astronomy and tides
Further information: Eclipse cycleIn astronomy, a lunar fortnight is half a lunar synodic month, which is equivalent to the mean period between a full moon and a new moon (and vice versa). This is equal to 14.07 days. It gives rise to a lunar fortnightly tidal constituent (see: Long-period tides).
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References
- "Fortnight". The Concise Oxford Dictionary (5th ed.). 1964. p. 480.
- Senight, sennight or se'night (seven-night), an old word for the week, was still in use in the early 19th century, to judge from Jane Austen's letters.
- Littmann, Mark; Fred Espenak; Ken Willcox (2008). Totality: Eclipses of the Sun. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-953209-4.
- Weisstein, Eric W. "Synodic Month definition".
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