different between wig vs wif

English

Etymology

Shortening of periwig, itself an alteration of French perruque.

Pronunciation

• enPR: w?g, IPA^(key): /w??/

Rhymes: -??

• Homophone: Whig (in accents with the wine-whine merger)

Noun

wig (plural wigs)

1. A head of real or synthetic hair worn on the head to disguise baldness, for cultural or religious reasons, for fashion, or by actors to help them better resemble the character they are portraying.
2. (dated, among fishermen) An old seal.

Synonyms

• hairpiece
• toupee, toupe
• peruke
• periwig

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

wig (third-person singular simple present wigs, present participle wigging, simple past and past participle wigged)

1. To put on a wig; to provide with a wig (especially of an actor etc.).
2. (colloquial) To upbraid, reprimand.
3. (colloquial, slang) To become extremely emotional or excitable; to lose control of one's emotions.

Related terms

• wig out

See also

• earwig
• merkin
• periwig
• peruke

Further reading

• wig on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• wig in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch wig.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v??/

Noun

wig (plural wîe)

1. wedge
2. quoin

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch wegghe, from Old Dutch *weggi, from Proto-Germanic *wagjaz.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?x
• IPA^(key): /??x/

Noun

wig f (plural wiggen, diminutive wiggetje n)

1. wedge

Gothic

Romanization

wig

1. Romanization of ????????????

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wi?j/

Etymology 1

From Proto-West Germanic *w?g

Noun

w?? n

1. war, battle

Declension

Derived terms

• ?nw??
• w?ga

Etymology 2

Variant of w?oh.

Noun

w?? m

1. idol

2. (in compounds) holy, consecrated

Declension

Derived terms

• w??weorþung (“idol-worship”)
• w??bed > w?ofod (“altar”)
• w??smiþ (“idol-carver”)

Old Saxon

Etymology 1

From Proto-West Germanic *w?g

Noun

w?g n

1. war, battle

Declension

Etymology 2

From Proto-West Germanic *wigi

Noun

wig n

1. horse, steed

Declension

English

Alternative forms

• wid, wiv (both informal)

Etymology

Alteration of with.

Pronunciation

• enPR: w?f, IPA^(key): /w?f/
• Rhymes: -?f

Preposition

wif

1. (informal, dialectal, nonstandard) with
   • 1998, Ted Shine, Contributions, ?ISBN, page 31:

     That's what I mo' wear wif my shoes.

   • 2000, Jan King, It'a A Girl Thing: The Hilarious Truth About Women, ?ISBN, page 161:

     I been at the gym gettin' down wif my peeps.

   • 2002, Stan Hayes, The Rough English Equivalent, ?ISBN, page 324:

     If I don' have no problem wif my high school test?

Anagrams

• IWF

Mapudungun

Adjective

wif (using Raguileo Alphabet)

1. long
2. straight

Adverb

wif (using Raguileo Alphabet)

1. directly

Noun

wif (using Raguileo Alphabet)

1. irrigation ditch

References

• Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.

Middle English

Alternative forms

• wife, wiff, wiffe, wijf, wive, wyf, wyfe, wyff

Etymology

From Old English w?f.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wi?f/
• Rhymes: -i?f

Noun

wif (plural wifes or wives or wive)

1. woman, female human
2. wife, female spouse
   • ca. 1380: It cam in cuppemele — this craft my wif used! — William Langland, Piers Plowman
   • ca. 1380, — Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, The Merchant's Tale

     That in a morwe unto this May saith he

     Rys up, my wif, my love, my lady fre
     

3. The leading woman of a household; a matriarch.
4. A female animal, especially one mating.
5. A concubine.

Antonyms

• wer (with respect to gender)

Descendants

• English: wife
  • ? Japanese: ??? (waifu)
    • ? English: waifu
  • ? Korean: ??? (waipeu)
• Scots: wife

References

• “w?f, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-08.

Old English

Alternative forms

• wib

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *w?b, of uncertain origin. Cognate with Old Frisian w?f, Old Saxon w?f, Old Dutch w?f, Old High German w?b, Old Norse víf.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wi?f/

Noun

w?f n

1. woman
   • c. 990, Wessex Gospels, John 4:27

   • late 10th century, Ælfric, "The Annunciation of St. Mary"

2. wife

Usage notes

• Since w?f is a grammatically neuter noun, all accompanying articles, determiners, and adjectives take neuter forms: þæt ealde w?f ("the old woman").
• However, pronouns referring back to w?f are almost always feminine: ?esiehst þ? þæt w?f s?o þ?r stent? Canst þ? h?e? ("Do you see the woman who [feminine] is standing there? Do you know her?"). This is similar to the situation of the neuter word mæ?den (“girl”) and the masculine word w?fmann (“woman”), whose grammatical genders also disagree with their natural genders.

Declension

Antonyms

• wer (with respect to gender)

Derived terms

• w?ffr?ond (“female friend”)
• w?fh?d (“womanhood, femininity”)
• w?fhand (“a female inheritor; female side”)
• w?fl?as (“wifeless”)
• w?fl?? (“female, feminine”)
• w?fmann (“woman”)
• w?fs?r?d (“women's clothing”)

Descendants

• Middle English: wif, wife, wiff, wiffe, wijf, wive, wyf, wyfe, wyff
  • English: wife
    • ? Japanese: ??? (waifu)
      • ? English: waifu
    • ? Korean: ??? (waipeu)
  • Scots: wife

Old Frisian

Alternative forms

• wiif (Late Old Frisian)

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *w?b, from Proto-Germanic *w?b?, of uncertain origin. Cognates include Old English w?f, Old Saxon w?f and Old Dutch w?f.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wi?f/

Noun

w?f n

1. woman
2. wife

Descendants

• North Frisian: wüf
• Saterland Frisian: Wieuw
• West Frisian: wiif

References

• Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, ?ISBN

West Frisian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v?f/

Adjective

wif

1. shaky
2. impermanent
3. fickle, indecisive

Inflection

Further reading

• “wif”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011