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BIBLIOGRAPHIC IDENTITYduden-weib

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historical dictionaryduden-weib

Weib — Rechtschreibung, Bedeutung, Definition, Herkunft

AUTHOR / EDITOR
Duden Editors
YEAR
2026
PUBLISHER
Cornelsen Verlag
DOI
Not recorded
SOURCE TYPE
historical dictionary
EXTERNAL RECORD
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2COMPARISONS
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2DISPUTES
3JOURNEY STAGES
1WORD DOSSIERS
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EDGE 902supportsboundary

wīb → UNKNOWN

Old High German → Beyond secure reconstruction · knowledge boundary

SOUND
No reconstructed direct parent is promoted beyond attested Old High German wīb.
MEANING
The historical woman and wife word reaches an unresolved origin rather than a fabricated proto-form.
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SET-U editorial boundary · Duden Editors
Herkunft: mittelhochdeutsch wīp, althochdeutsch wīb, Herkunft ungeklärt

Explicitly states the Old High German form and unresolved origin.

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EDGE 905supportsestablished

Weib → wīp

German → Middle High German · historical continuation

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.
SCHOLAR / EDITOR
Duden Editors · Freie Universität Berlin Editors
Bedeutungen; Herkunft: mittelhochdeutsch wīp

Publishes both the historical form and the modern usage state.

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EDGE 906supportsestablished

wīp → wīb

Middle High German → Old High German · continuation

SOUND
Freie Universität Berlin orders Old High German WĪB before Middle High German WÎP and explains that word-final b was pronounced voiceless and represented as p in Middle High German spelling.
MEANING
The woman and wife field continues across the language stages.
SCHOLAR / EDITOR
Duden Editors · Freie Universität Berlin Editors
Herkunft: mittelhochdeutsch wīp, althochdeutsch wīb

Publishes the recorded German continuation.

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EDGE 907contextprobable

wīf → UNKNOWN

Old English → Beyond secure reconstruction · cognate horizon

SOUND
Merriam-Webster identifies Old English wīf as akin to Old High German wīb but supplies no directional derivation or common reconstructed form.
MEANING
The English woman and wife noun meets the Old High German field at an unresolved comparative horizon.
SCHOLAR / EDITOR
Merriam-Webster Editors · Duden Editors
Herkunft ungeklärt

Keeps the shared deep horizon explicitly unresolved.

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wīb

wīp

Middle High German

recorded continuation of Old High German wīb

wīb

Weib

German

modern continuation with increasingly discriminatory usage

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