wif

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English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Alteration of with.

Pronunciation

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Preposition

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wif

  1. (informal, dialectal, nonstandard) with
    • 1998, Ted Shine, Contributions, →ISBN, page 31:
      That's what I mo' wear wif my shoes.
    • 2000, Jan King, It'a A Girl Thing: The Hilarious Truth About Women, →ISBN, page 161:
      I been at the gym gettin' down wif my peeps.
    • 2002, Stan Hayes, The Rough English Equivalent, →ISBN, page 324:
      If I don' have no problem wif my high school test?

Anagrams

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Mapudungun

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Adjective

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wif (Raguileo spelling)

  1. long
  2. straight

Adverb

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wif (Raguileo spelling)

  1. directly

Noun

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wif (Raguileo spelling)

  1. irrigation ditch

References

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  • Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.

Middle English

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Noun

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wif

  1. Alternative form of wyf

Old Dutch

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Etymology

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From Proto-West Germanic *wīb, from Proto-Germanic *wībą.

Cognate with Old Frisian wīf, Old Saxon wīf, Old English wīf, Old High German wīb, Old Norse víf.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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wīf n

  1. woman
    • c. 1000 CE, Leiden Willeram;
      Thie thiernan sahon sie ande zaldon sie ze aller wivo saligosta
      The girls saw her and counted her as the most fortunate of all women
    • c. 1100 CE, Rhinelandic Rhyming Bible;
      Thure sinen bosen nith betroch er thaz arme wif
      Because of his evil hate, he decieved that poor woman
  2. (rare) wife

Declension

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Middle Dutch: wijf
    • Dutch: wijf
      • Afrikaans: wyf
      • Jersey Dutch: wāif
      • Negerhollands: wief, wif
      • Skepi Creole Dutch: weef
      • Sranan Tongo: wefi
    • Limburgish: wief
    • West Flemish: wuuf
    • Zealandic: wuuf

References

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wīf”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Proto-West Germanic *wīb, from Proto-Germanic *wībą, of uncertain origin.

Cognate with Old Frisian wīf, Old Saxon wīf, Old Dutch wīf, Old High German wīb, Old Norse víf.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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wīf n

  1. woman
    • c. 992, Ælfric, "The Annunciation of St. Mary"
      Ūs becōm dēaþ and forwyrd þurh wīf, and ūs becōm eft līf and hredding þurh wīfmann.
      Death and disaster came to us through a woman [Eve], and then life and salvation came to us through a woman [Mary].
    • c. 990, Wessex Gospels, John 4:27
      His leornungcneohtas wundrodon þæt hē wiþ wīf spræc, þēah heora nān ne cwæþ “Hwæt sēcst þū?” oþþe “Hwæt spricst þū wiþ hīe?”
      His disciples were amazed that he was talking to a woman, though none of them said “What are you looking for?” or “Why are you talking to her?”
  2. female
  3. wife

Usage notes

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  • Since wīf is a grammatically neuter noun, all accompanying articles, determiners, and adjectives take neuter forms: þæt ealde wīf ("the old woman").
  • However, pronouns referring back to wīf are almost always feminine: Ġesiehst þū þæt wīf sēo þǣr stent? Canst þū hīe? ("Do you see the woman who [feminine] is standing there? Do you know her?"). The same applies to the neuter word mæġden (girl) and the masculine word wīfmann (woman), whose grammatical genders also disagree with their natural genders.

Declension

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Antonyms

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  • wer (with respect to gender)

Derived terms

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Descendants

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Old Frisian

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Alternative forms

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  • wiif (Late Old Frisian)

Etymology

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From Proto-West Germanic *wīb, from Proto-Germanic *wībą, of uncertain origin. Cognates include Old English wīf, Old Saxon wīf and Old Dutch wīf.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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wīf n

  1. woman
  2. wife

Descendants

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References

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  • Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN

West Frisian

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Pronunciation

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Adjective

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wif

  1. shaky
  2. impermanent
  3. fickle, indecisive

Inflection

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Inflection of wif
uninflected wif
inflected wiffe
comparative wiffer
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial wif wiffer it wifst
it wifste
indefinite c. sing. wiffe wiffere wifste
n. sing. wif wiffer wifste
plural wiffe wiffere wifste
definite wiffe wiffere wifste
partitive wifs wiffers

Further reading

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  • wif”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011