NODE / 0893attestedTocharian B
kwīpe
TRANSLITERATION kwīpe
shame; modesty; woman comparison
- DATE
- Tocharian B
- SENSE
- shame modesty woman comparison
- FAMILY
- Indo-European / Tocharian
- CANONICAL KEY
- node:81:kwipe:attested:sense:shame-modesty-woman-comparison
Merriam-Webster reports only a probable comparison with Old English wīf; this is not promoted as direct ancestry.
01ANCESTRAL EDGES
ROOT OF THIS ROOT
*THE TRAIL ENDS HERE.No securely reviewed ancestor extends beyond this node. 1 evidence path stops at this boundary.
INSPECT 1 CITED BOUNDARY CLAIM
02DIRECT DESCENDANT EDGES
THE NEXT HISTORICAL STEP
DESCENDANTproposed comparisonprobable
Old English · Old English · woman wife nounwīf
woman; wife
- SOUND
- Old English wīf is reported as probably akin to Tocharian B kwīpe.
- MEANING
- The comparison may connect woman-related lexical material without establishing direction or a direct parent.
- SCHOLAR
- Merriam-Webster Editors
- CONFIDENCE
- probable — The source says probably akin, not derived from.
03TRANSITIVE DESCENDANT CLOSURE
EVERY REVIEWED BRANCH FROM HERE
This is the complete downstream closure currently supported by the canonical graph. Every displayed step is a real reviewed edge with its own sound claim, meaning claim, scholar, confidence, and citations.
- UNIQUE DESCENDANT NODES
- 6
- REVIEWED EDGES
- 6
- DEEPEST PATH
- 4
- MODERN DOSSIERS REACHED
- 2
HISTORICAL STEP 011 EDGE
STEP 01proposed comparisonprobable
- SOUND
- Old English wīf is reported as probably akin to Tocharian B kwīpe.
- MEANING
- The comparison may connect woman-related lexical material without establishing direction or a direct parent.
HISTORICAL STEP 022 EDGES
STEP 02compound componentestablished
- SOUND
- Old English wīfman contains wīf as its first lexical component.
- MEANING
- Woman or wife combines with the separately modeled human-person component mann.
Merriam-Webster Editors · American Heritage Dictionary Editors2 CITATIONSEDGE 806 ↗ STEP 02continuationestablished
- SOUND
- Middle English wif continues Old English wīf.
- MEANING
- Woman and wife senses continue through medieval English.
Merriam-Webster Editors · American Heritage Dictionary Editors2 CITATIONSEDGE 867 ↗ HISTORICAL STEP 032 EDGES
STEP 03continuationestablished
- SOUND
- Old English wīfman contracts and assimilates into Middle English womman.
- MEANING
- The compound remains a woman noun while its internal morphology becomes opaque.
Merriam-Webster Editors · American Heritage Dictionary Editors2 CITATIONSEDGE 805 ↗ STEP 03continuationestablished
- SOUND
- Middle English wif develops into modern wife with the Great Vowel Shift and final silent-e spelling.
- MEANING
- The older woman-or-wife field narrows toward the spouse sense.
Merriam-Webster Editors · American Heritage Dictionary Editors2 CITATIONSEDGE 866 ↗ HISTORICAL STEP 041 EDGE
STEP 04continuationestablished
- SOUND
- Middle English womman develops to modern woman with reduction of the unstressed final syllable and modern spelling.
- MEANING
- The female-person compound remains the ordinary adult-female noun.
Merriam-Webster Editors · American Heritage Dictionary Editors2 CITATIONSEDGE 804 ↗ “Every” means every descendant in the reviewed SET-U graph. It does not convert missing scholarship or missing ingestion into a claim of historical completeness. The coverage ledger remains the honest denominator.
04RECORDED EVIDENCE
ATTESTATIONS / FIRST KNOWN USE
NO RECORDED WITNESS ATTACHED.The reviewed graph does not yet attach a source-reported or directly inspected witness to this canonical form.
05EDITORIAL REUSE
WORD DOSSIERS USING THIS NODE