wif

• wid, wiv (both informal)

Alteration of with.

• enPR: wĭf, IPA^(key): /wɪf/
• Rhymes: -ɪf

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?

• IWF

wif (using Raguileo Alphabet)

1. long
2. straight

wif (using Raguileo Alphabet)

1. directly

wif (using Raguileo Alphabet)

1. irrigation ditch

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

• wife, wive, wiffe, wyf, wyfe, wijf, wiff

From Old English wīf, from Proto-Germanic *wībą.

• IPA^(key): /wiːf/
• Rhymes: -iːf

wif (plural wifes or wives or wive)

1. woman, female human
2. wife, female spouse
   • 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
     

3. The leading woman of a household; a matriarch.
4. A female animal, especially one mating.
5. A concubine.

• English: wife
• Scots: wife

• “wīf (n.(2))” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-08.

• ƿif, wib

From Proto-Germanic *wībą, of uncertain origin. Cognate with Old Frisian wīf (West Frisian wiif), Old Saxon wīf (Low German Wief), Old Dutch wīf (Dutch wijf), Old High German wīb (German Weib), Old Norse víf (Swedish viv). Tocharian B kwīpe, Tocharian A kip (“vagina”), Polish kiep and Albanian cipë (“sense of shame, membrane”) may be cognates, suggesting a Proto-Indo-European *gʰwih₂bʰ-.

• IPA^(key): /wiːf/

wīf n

1. woman
2. wife

• Since wīf is a grammatically neuter noun, all preceding 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 is standing there? Do you know her?"). This is similar to the situation of mæġden (“girl”), which is neuter, and wīfmann (“woman”), which is masculine.

• wer (with respect to gender)

• wīflēas
• wīflīċ
• wīfmann

• Middle English: wif, wiif, wyf
  • English: wife
  • Scots: wife

• wyf

From Proto-Germanic *wībą, of uncertain origin.

wīf n

1. woman

• IPA^(key): /vɪf/

wif

1. shaky
2. impermanent
3. fickle, indecisive

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