wife
要点妻
意味
- 妻,女房,奥さん,夫人
- 《古》(特に結婚した)女
例文
Wife and children are hostages given to fortune.
妻子は運命に与えられた人質である。
He reminded his wife to wake him up at 7:00 a.m.
彼は妻に自分を午前７時に起こしてくれるように念を押した。
He who has a fair wife needs more than two eyes.
美人の妻を持った者は目が二つでは足りない。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
Inherited from Middle English wyf, wif, from Old English wīf (“woman, wife”), from Proto-West Germanic *wīb, from Proto-Germanic *wībą (“woman; wife”). Cognates Germanic cognates include Scots wife (“wife; woman”), North Frisian wuf, wüf (“wife, woman”), Saterland Frisian Wieuw (“woman; wife; female”), West Frisian wiif (“wife; woman”), Cimbrian baibe, baip (“wife; woman”), Dutch wijf (“woman; female”), German Weib (“woman; wife; female”), German Low German Wiev (“woman; female”), Mòcheno baib (“woman”), Vilamovian bow (“wife; woman”), Yiddish ווײַב (vayb, “wife; woman”) Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish viv (“wife; woman”), Faroese vív (“wife; woman”), Icelandic víf (…