wiif
See also: Wiif
Middle English
[edit]Noun
[edit]wiif
- partially modernised spelling of wijf
Old Frisian
[edit]Noun
[edit]wiif n
- late Old Frisian spelling of wīf
References
[edit]- Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009), An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN
West Frisian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Frisian wīf, wiif, from Proto-West Germanic *wīb, from Proto-Germanic *wībą (“woman; wife”).
Noun
[edit]wiif c (plural wiven, diminutive wyfke)
Further reading
[edit]- “wiif”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
Categories:
- Middle English lemmas
- Middle English nouns
- Old Frisian lemmas
- Old Frisian nouns
- Old Frisian neuter nouns
- West Frisian terms inherited from Old Frisian
- West Frisian terms derived from Old Frisian
- West Frisian terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic
- West Frisian terms derived from Proto-West Germanic
- West Frisian terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- West Frisian terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- West Frisian lemmas
- West Frisian nouns
- West Frisian common-gender nouns
- West Frisian dated terms
- West Frisian terms with rare senses