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wif
wif
See also: wif-
English
Alternative forms
Preposition
wif
- (informal, dialectal, eye dialect) with
- 1998, Ted Shine, Contributions, ISBN 0822202387, 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 0740711318, page 161:
- I been at the gym gettin' down wif my peeps.
- 2002, Stan Hayes, The Rough English Equivalent, ISBN 059524579X, page 324:
- If I don' have no problem wif my high school test?
- 1998, Ted Shine, Contributions, ISBN 0822202387, page 31:
Anagrams
Mapudungun
Adjective
wif (using Raguileo Alphabet)
Adverb
wif (using Raguileo Alphabet)
Noun
wif (using Raguileo Alphabet)
References
- Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.
Middle English
Etymology
From Old English wīf.
Noun
wif
- woman
- wife
- ca. 1380: It cam in cuppemele — this craft my wif used! — William Langland, Piers Plowman
- ca. 1380, — Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, The Merchant's Tale
- That in a morwe unto this May saith he
- Rys up, my wif, my love, my lady fre
Descendants
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *wībą, of uncertain origin. Cognate with Old Frisian wīf, Old Saxon wīf, Dutch wijf, Old High German vīp (German Weib (“woman”)), Old Norse víf (Danish viv). Tocharian B kwīpe, Tocharian A kip (“****”) and Albanian cipë (“sense of shame, membrane”) may be cognates, suggesting a Proto-Indo-European *gʰwih₂bʰ-.
Pronunciation
Noun
wīf n
Antonyms
- wer (with respect to gender)
Descendants
Derived terms
Old Frisian
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *wībą, of uncertain origin.
Noun
wīf ?
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