different between yive vs wive

English

Etymology

From Middle English yiven, from Old English ?iefan, from Proto-West Germanic *geban, from Proto-Germanic *geban?, from Proto-Indo-European *g?eb?-e-ti, from *g?eb?- (“to give, move”). Doublet of give, from Old Norse.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [j?v]

Verb

yive (third-person singular simple present yives, present participle yiving, simple past yave, past participle yiven)

1. (transitive, nonstandard, West Country) To give.
   • 1393, John Gower, Confessio Amantis, lines 2129-2130:

     To yive a man so litel thing / It were unworschipe in a king.

Anagrams

• Ivey, ivey

English

Etymology

From Middle English wiven, iwiven, from Old English w?fian, w?fi?an, ?ew?fian (“to take a wife; marry”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?v

Verb

wive (third-person singular simple present wives, present participle wiving, simple past and past participle wived)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To marry (a woman).
   • c. 1600, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act 1, Scene III

     If he have the condition of a saint and the complexion of a devil, I had rather he should shrive me than wive me.

2. (transitive) To provide (someone) with a wife.

Synonyms

• wife (slang, African-American Vernacular)

Anagrams

• view

Middle English

Etymology 1

A version of wif with the voiced consonant analogically brought in from the plural forms.

Noun

wive

1. Alternative form of wif

Etymology 2

From Old English w?fa, nominative plural of w?f.

Noun

wive

1. plural of wif