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Altwîb — Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Althochdeutschen I
- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- Albert L. Lloyd and Otto Springer
- YEAR
- 1988
- PUBLISHER
- Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
- DOI
- Not recorded
- SOURCE TYPE
- historical dictionary
- EXTERNAL RECORD
- OPEN ORIGINAL ↗
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The modern stigma of Weib is not the timeless nature of wīb.
Duden marks modern Weib increasingly discriminatory, while Old High German records preserve wīb in old-woman and wife expressions; the deeper origin remains unresolved.
wīb
Altwîb, old womanPreserves historical woman reference.
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Was Old High German wīb already the modern German insult?
The sources do not license that projection. Duden marks modern Weib increasingly discriminatory, while Old High German records preserve wīb in ordinary old-woman and married-woman expressions.
Band I, column 183: altwîb, old womanPreserves wīb in an Old High German woman compound.
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altwîb
Old High Germancompound attested with the sense old woman
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Old High German linguistic region
Documents the component inside an Old High German woman compound.
Band I, column 183: altwîb · broadNON-GENEALOGICAL CONNECTIONS
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WORD-FAMILY REUSE