English

alt-weekly

From alt- + weekly.

A compound of alt- + weekly

Latin alternātus ‘alternated, vacillated’

Latin alternātīvus ‘alternating’

Middle French alternatif

English alternative

English alt-

Proto-Indo-European *weyg- ‘to bend’

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Proto-West Germanic *wikā ‘week’

Old English wice ‘week’

Middle English wyke ‘week’

Middle English wykely

Today it means

noun An alternative newspaper published weekly.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / alt-weekly