"ווײַב" meaning in Yiddish

See ווײַב in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /vaɪ̯b/ [Northeastern, YIVO], /vaːb/ [Poylish] Forms: vayb [romanization], vayber [romanization], vaybl [romanization]
Etymology: From Old High German wīb, related to Old Saxon wīf (whence Low German Wief), Middle Dutch wijf (whence Dutch wijf), Old English wīf (whence English wife), Old Norse víf (whence Common Scandinavian viv). Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *wībą. Etymology templates: {{inh|yi|goh|wīb}} Old High German wīb, {{cog|osx|wīf}} Old Saxon wīf, {{cog|nds|Wief}} Low German Wief, {{cog|dum|wijf}} Middle Dutch wijf, {{cog|nl|wijf}} Dutch wijf, {{cog|ang|wīf}} Old English wīf, {{cog|en|wife}} English wife, {{cog|non|víf}} Old Norse víf, {{inh|yi|gem-pro|*wībą}} Proto-Germanic *wībą Head templates: {{head|yi|noun|g=f|g2=n|g3=|head=|sort=|tr=}} ווײַב • (vayb) f or n, {{yi-noun|dim=ווײַבל|g=fn|pl=ווײַבער}} ווײַב • (vayb) f or n, plural ווײַבער (vayber), diminutive ווײַבל (vaybl)
  1. wife
    Sense id: en-ווײַב-yi-noun-nVKjyOTW Categories (other): Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Yiddish entries with incorrect language header, Yiddish terms with redundant script codes Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 50 50 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 50 50 Disambiguation of Yiddish entries with incorrect language header: 50 50 Disambiguation of Yiddish terms with redundant script codes: 50 50
  2. woman
    Sense id: en-ווײַב-yi-noun-zy5b~x7w Categories (other): Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Yiddish entries with incorrect language header, Yiddish terms with redundant script codes, Women Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 50 50 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 50 50 Disambiguation of Yiddish entries with incorrect language header: 50 50 Disambiguation of Yiddish terms with redundant script codes: 50 50 Disambiguation of Women: 26 74
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: ווײַבלעך (vayblekh), ווײַבערטײַטש (vaybertaytsh), ווײַבערניק (vaybernik), ווײַבערש (vaybersh), ווײַבעריש (vayberish), ווײַבערשול (vaybershul), קעפּסווײַב (kepsvayb)
Categories (other): People Disambiguation of People: 0 0

Inflected forms

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  "categories": [
    {
      "_dis": "0 0",
      "kind": "other",
      "langcode": "yi",
      "name": "People",
      "orig": "yi:People",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w+disamb"
    }
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "vayblekh",
      "word": "ווײַבלעך"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "vaybertaytsh",
      "word": "ווײַבערטײַטש"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "vaybernik",
      "word": "ווײַבערניק"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "vaybersh",
      "word": "ווײַבערש"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "vayberish",
      "word": "ווײַבעריש"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "vaybershul",
      "word": "ווײַבערשול"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "kepsvayb",
      "word": "קעפּסווײַב"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "yi",
        "2": "goh",
        "3": "wīb"
      },
      "expansion": "Old High German wīb",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "osx",
        "2": "wīf"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Saxon wīf",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nds",
        "2": "Wief"
      },
      "expansion": "Low German Wief",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "dum",
        "2": "wijf"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle Dutch wijf",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nl",
        "2": "wijf"
      },
      "expansion": "Dutch wijf",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "wīf"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English wīf",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "wife"
      },
      "expansion": "English wife",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "non",
        "2": "víf"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Norse víf",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "yi",
        "2": "gem-pro",
        "3": "*wībą"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *wībą",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old High German wīb, related to Old Saxon wīf (whence Low German Wief), Middle Dutch wijf (whence Dutch wijf), Old English wīf (whence English wife), Old Norse víf (whence Common Scandinavian viv). Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *wībą.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "vayb",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "vayber",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "vaybl",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "yi",
        "2": "noun",
        "g": "f",
        "g2": "n",
        "g3": "",
        "head": "",
        "sort": "",
        "tr": ""
      },
      "expansion": "ווײַב • (vayb) f or n",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "dim": "ווײַבל",
        "g": "fn",
        "pl": "ווײַבער"
      },
      "expansion": "ווײַב • (vayb) f or n, plural ווײַבער (vayber), diminutive ווײַבל (vaybl)",
      "name": "yi-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Yiddish",
  "lang_code": "yi",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "50 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "50 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "50 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Yiddish entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "50 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Yiddish terms with redundant script codes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "wife"
      ],
      "id": "en-ווײַב-yi-noun-nVKjyOTW",
      "links": [
        [
          "wife",
          "wife"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "50 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "50 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "50 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Yiddish entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "50 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Yiddish terms with redundant script codes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "26 74",
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "yi",
          "name": "Women",
          "orig": "yi:Women",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "woman"
      ],
      "id": "en-ווײַב-yi-noun-zy5b~x7w",
      "links": [
        [
          "woman",
          "woman"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/vaɪ̯b/",
      "tags": [
        "Northeastern",
        "YIVO"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/vaːb/",
      "tags": [
        "Poylish"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "ווײַב"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Yiddish entries with incorrect language header",
    "Yiddish feminine nouns",
    "Yiddish lemmas",
    "Yiddish neuter nouns",
    "Yiddish nouns",
    "Yiddish nouns with multiple genders",
    "Yiddish terms derived from Old High German",
    "Yiddish terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
    "Yiddish terms inherited from Old High German",
    "Yiddish terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
    "Yiddish terms with redundant script codes",
    "yi:People",
    "yi:Women"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "roman": "vayblekh",
      "word": "ווײַבלעך"
    },
    {
      "roman": "vaybertaytsh",
      "word": "ווײַבערטײַטש"
    },
    {
      "roman": "vaybernik",
      "word": "ווײַבערניק"
    },
    {
      "roman": "vaybersh",
      "word": "ווײַבערש"
    },
    {
      "roman": "vayberish",
      "word": "ווײַבעריש"
    },
    {
      "roman": "vaybershul",
      "word": "ווײַבערשול"
    },
    {
      "roman": "kepsvayb",
      "word": "קעפּסווײַב"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "yi",
        "2": "goh",
        "3": "wīb"
      },
      "expansion": "Old High German wīb",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "osx",
        "2": "wīf"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Saxon wīf",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nds",
        "2": "Wief"
      },
      "expansion": "Low German Wief",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "dum",
        "2": "wijf"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle Dutch wijf",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nl",
        "2": "wijf"
      },
      "expansion": "Dutch wijf",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "wīf"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English wīf",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "wife"
      },
      "expansion": "English wife",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "non",
        "2": "víf"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Norse víf",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "yi",
        "2": "gem-pro",
        "3": "*wībą"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *wībą",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old High German wīb, related to Old Saxon wīf (whence Low German Wief), Middle Dutch wijf (whence Dutch wijf), Old English wīf (whence English wife), Old Norse víf (whence Common Scandinavian viv). Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *wībą.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "vayb",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "vayber",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "vaybl",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "yi",
        "2": "noun",
        "g": "f",
        "g2": "n",
        "g3": "",
        "head": "",
        "sort": "",
        "tr": ""
      },
      "expansion": "ווײַב • (vayb) f or n",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "dim": "ווײַבל",
        "g": "fn",
        "pl": "ווײַבער"
      },
      "expansion": "ווײַב • (vayb) f or n, plural ווײַבער (vayber), diminutive ווײַבל (vaybl)",
      "name": "yi-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Yiddish",
  "lang_code": "yi",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "wife"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "wife",
          "wife"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "woman"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "woman",
          "woman"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/vaɪ̯b/",
      "tags": [
        "Northeastern",
        "YIVO"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/vaːb/",
      "tags": [
        "Poylish"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "ווײַב"
}

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