No direct parent is promoted beyond Old English wīf.
CANONICAL RELATIONSHIP RECORD
COVERAGE LEDGER ↗EDGE / 0868knowledge boundaryboundary
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A relationship—not a generated explanation. Both endpoints, every editorial field, every citation, and every dossier reuse are preserved below.
wīf
woman; wife
OPEN NODE 800 ↗DESCENDS FROM→
PARENT / EARLIER FORM / boundaryBeyond secure reconstruction · before the reviewed Old English wīf horizon · wife deep boundaryUNKNOWN
No securely promoted direct ancestor is currently known beyond Old English wīf.
OPEN NODE 867 ↗01
THE COMPLETE RELATIONSHIP
EVERY FIELD, NOT A FAIRY TALE
The trail stops while a probable Tocharian comparison remains explicitly non-parental.
No separate chronology note is attached beyond the endpoint date ranges.
SET-U editorial boundary
boundary — The reviewed sources do not supply a secure direct ancestor.
reviewed
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CITATION REGISTER
SOURCES ON THIS EDGE
Wife — Definition and Word HistoryOld English wīf, probably akin to Tocharian B kwīpe
supportsAUDIT SOURCE ↗ORIGINAL ↗Justifies a boundary before the non-parental comparison.
Wife — American Heritage DictionaryEtymology stops at Old English wīf
contextAUDIT SOURCE ↗ORIGINAL ↗Confirms that no secure direct ancestor is supplied.
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