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語源

Either from 古期英語 wīflēas or a new formation from wyf (“wife”) +‎ -les.

発音

• IPA: /ˈwiːflɛ̝ːs/, /ˈwiːflɛs/, /ˈwiːv-/

形容詞

wyfles (rare)

1. Wifeless; having no wife.
   • 1470–1483 (date produced), Thom̃s Malleorre [i.e., Thomas Malory], “[Launcelot du Lake]”, in Le Morte Darthur (British Library Additional Manuscript 59678), [England: s.n.], folio 104, verso, lines 25–26:

     […] ye that ar a knyght wyveles · that ye woll nat love ſom mayden oþ̀[er] jantylwoman […]

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. (religion) Bound to celibacy.

派生した語

• English: wifeless, wiveless
• Yola: wooveless

参照

• “wīflē̆s, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.