No reconstructed direct parent is promoted beyond attested Old High German wīb.
CANONICAL RELATIONSHIP RECORD
COVERAGE LEDGER ↗EDGE / 0902knowledge boundaryboundary
A CLAIM
YOU CAN AUDIT.
A relationship—not a generated explanation. Both endpoints, every editorial field, every citation, and every dossier reuse are preserved below.
wīb
woman; wife in recorded expressions
OPEN NODE 904 ↗DESCENDS FROM→
PARENT / EARLIER FORM / boundaryBeyond secure reconstruction · before the reviewed Old High German wīb horizon · wib deep boundaryUNKNOWN
No securely reconstructed direct ancestor is currently promoted beyond Old High German wīb.
OPEN NODE 905 ↗01
THE COMPLETE RELATIONSHIP
EVERY FIELD, NOT A FAIRY TALE
The historical woman and wife word reaches an unresolved origin rather than a fabricated proto-form.
No separate chronology note is attached beyond the endpoint date ranges.
SET-U editorial boundary · Duden Editors
boundary — Duden explicitly labels the origin unclear and offers two possibilities only as perhaps.
reviewed
02
CITATION REGISTER
SOURCES ON THIS EDGE
Weib — Rechtschreibung, Bedeutung, Definition, HerkunftHerkunft: mittelhochdeutsch wīp, althochdeutsch wīb, Herkunft ungeklärt
supportsAUDIT SOURCE ↗ORIGINAL ↗Explicitly states the Old High German form and unresolved origin.
03
EDITORIAL REUSE