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merwife

noun

Etymology

From Old English merewīf (“water witch, mermaid”), from Proto-West Germanic *mariwīb, from Proto-Germanic *mariwībą (“mermaid, siren”). By surface analysis, mer- + wife. Cognate with Old High German meriwīb.

  1. inherited from *mariwībą✻ — “mermaid, siren”
  2. inherited from *mariwīb✻
  3. inherited from merewīf — “water witch, mermaid”

Definitions

  1. A mermaid.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for merwife. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA