See wyf in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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},
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"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
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"text": "ca. 1380: It cam in cuppemele — this craft my wif used! — William Langland, Piers Plowman"
},
{
"english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
"text": "ca. 1380, — Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, The Merchant's Tale\nThat in a morwe unto this May saith he\nRys up, my wif, my love, my lady fre",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1474, Caxton, Game and Playe of the Chesse:",
"text": "In lyke wyse as democreon the philosophre put out his owen eyen be cause he wold not see that no good myght come to the euyll and vicyous peple wyth out right And also defortes the philosophre as he went toward his deth / his wyf that folowed after hym saide that he was dampned to deth wrongfully / than he answerd and sayd to her / holde thy peas and be styll / hit is better and more merytorye to dye by a wronge and unrightfull Jugement / than that I had deseruyd to dye.",
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"Psychology",
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},
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"Society",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
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"A female animal, especially one mating."
],
"id": "en-wyf-enm-noun-c7NGyal9"
},
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"Biology",
"Psychology",
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"Family",
"Society",
"People",
"All topics",
"Human",
"Fundamental"
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"A concubine."
],
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"concubine",
"concubine"
]
]
}
],
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"ipa": "/wiːf/"
},
{
"ipa": "/wif/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-iːf"
}
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"word": "wijf"
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"word": "wive"
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"word": "wyfe"
},
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"word": "wyff"
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}
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"word": "wyf"
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"word": "wer"
}
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"Middle English terms inherited from Old English",
"Middle English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
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"word": "wyfles"
},
{
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],
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"text": "ca. 1380: It cam in cuppemele — this craft my wif used! — William Langland, Piers Plowman"
},
{
"english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
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"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1474, Caxton, Game and Playe of the Chesse:",
"text": "In lyke wyse as democreon the philosophre put out his owen eyen be cause he wold not see that no good myght come to the euyll and vicyous peple wyth out right And also defortes the philosophre as he went toward his deth / his wyf that folowed after hym saide that he was dampned to deth wrongfully / than he answerd and sayd to her / holde thy peas and be styll / hit is better and more merytorye to dye by a wronge and unrightfull Jugement / than that I had deseruyd to dye.",
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"spouse"
]
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],
"links": [
[
"matriarch",
"matriarch"
]
]
},
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"A female animal, especially one mating."
]
},
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"glosses": [
"A concubine."
],
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"concubine",
"concubine"
]
]
}
],
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{
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},
{
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{
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},
{
"word": "wijf"
},
{
"word": "wive"
},
{
"word": "wyfe"
},
{
"word": "wyff"
},
{
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}
],
"word": "wyf"
}
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