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Weib

TRANSLITERATION WeibPRONUNCIATION [vaɪ̯p]

woman; wife; increasingly discriminatory term

DATE: Modern German
SENSE: deprecated woman wife term
FAMILY: Indo-European / West Germanic
CANONICAL KEY: node:30:weib:attested:sense:deprecated-woman-wife-term

Duden documents obsolete spouse use and modern discriminatory or derogatory force; those present senses are not projected backward.

ANCESTRAL EDGES

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GO DEEPERhistorical continuationestablished

Middle High German · Middle High German · woman wife noun

wīp

woman; wife

SOUND: Freie Universität Berlin places Middle High German WÎP before Early New High German WEYB and Modern German WEIB: the long vowel î diphthongizes to ei, while final devoicing remains pronounced but is no longer marked by p in modern spelling.
MEANING: Woman and wife senses continue while current usage becomes obsolete, jocular, ironic, discriminatory, or derogatory.
CHRONOLOGY: Middle High German through Early New High German to modern German.
SCHOLAR: Duden Editors · Freie Universität Berlin Editors
CONFIDENCE: established — The edge summarizes a published multi-stage continuation; it does not claim one instantaneous jump.

Weib — Rechtschreibung, Bedeutung, Definition, HerkunftsupportsBedeutungen; Herkunft: mittelhochdeutsch wīp

Publishes both the historical form and the modern usage state.

ORIGINAL ↗

Sprachwandel — Ältere deutsche Literatur und SprachesupportsChronological sequence WĪB, WÎP, WEYB, WEIB; explanations of final devoicing and diphthongization

Publishes the intervening written stages and the two named sound changes.

ORIGINAL ↗

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DIRECT DESCENDANT EDGES

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No reviewed descendants currently reuse this node. Absence describes the graph, not the entire history of the form.

TRANSITIVE 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: 0
REVIEWED EDGES: 0
DEEPEST PATH: 0
MODERN DOSSIERS REACHED: 0

No downstream edge has cleared review for this node. This is a graph-coverage statement, not a claim that the historical form produced nothing.

“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.

RECORDED 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.

EDITORIAL REUSE

Weib

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wīp

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EVERY REVIEWED BRANCH FROM HERE

ATTESTATIONS / FIRST KNOWN USE

WORD DOSSIERS USING THIS NODE