PERMANENT DISPUTE RECORD
ALL DISPUTES ↗One scholarly question. Every attached source. The present editorial state, without pretending the last word has been written.
The sources do not license that projection. Duden marks modern Weib increasingly discriminatory, while Old High German records preserve wīb in ordinary old-woman and married-woman expressions.
/wiːp/ · noun
An Old High German word occurring in woman and wife expressions; it continues into Middle High German wīp and modern German Weib, whose usage has changed sharply.
DIRECT CLAIM EVIDENCE
A citation is not a vote. Each record says whether the work supports, challenges, contradicts, or contextualizes the position—and identifies the exact locus used.
Documents the modern discriminatory warning and the historical wīp / wīb chain.
Besonderer Hinweis; Bedeutungen; HerkunftPreserves wīb in an Old High German woman compound.
Band I, column 183: altwîb, old womanPreserves wīb in an Old High German married-woman expression.
Band IV, column 1077: gihî(w)it wîb, wifeThe dossier separates stages of semantic history instead of turning a current judgment into an ancient essence.