Right, I (in the US) always figured "end" in the word "weekend" was akin to the two ends of a line segment, the two ends of a bar, etc. To instead think of "en

Right, I (in the US) always figured "end" in the word "weekend" was akin to the two ends of a line segment, the two ends of a bar, etc. To instead think of "end" in the word "weekend" as the opposite of "start" is to use a completely different definition of the word "end". I wonder if "weekend" therefore has two definitions, given the split dependency.