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Originally posted by Yorick:
Wife originated as an alternate meaning for woman yes. I find wiffmann a bit of a stretch though. I've done some language origin reading and found sometimes the opinions vary hugely. 
Maybe thats true, in which case what did the wiff mean as opposed to wiffmann being shortened to wiff. Why was it added in the first place?
How many other guys call/called their wives Wiff? I did. Wiffy, Wiff. Seems the language unwittingly did a full circle in my case
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Hey i knew that one!
When I studied english we had some papers on this subject. Alot of doing with the sefaring around scandinavia and also the english islands. Alot of words were borrowed from each other. There is an old saga called just the seafarer fromaround eh 900 ac something and itīs originated from england and I could understand it without problems because more than half the words sounded like alot of the words used today in many scandinavian languages. I can have alook and see if I can dig out some of my notes about it if anyone is interested (or if my now partying werewolf hasnīt gotten to them first.)
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