widow – English noun declension

English noun forms of widow

Noun: widow
Singularwidow
Pluralwidows

Sample Sentences

  • Now that he is a widow, he tries to win Olivia back through the songs and the music that brought them together all those years ago, leaving Olivia torn between moving forward with Josh or falling into the arms of the man she truly loves. [2016 June 23, Traciy Reyes, “‘The Wedding March’: Hallmark Movie — June Bride Unwittingly Hires Wedding Singer Who Is Her Ex, Starring Josie Bissett, Jack Wagner”, in The Inquisitr News:]
  • My aunt is a football widow in the fall and a basketball widow in the winter and early spring.
  • I had been feeling like a bowling-alley widow, but knew he loved the game, so I suggested we join a mixed league. [1988 November 27, Emily Parry, “For a Bowling Widow, a Split Isn't Just Two Lonely Pins”, in New York Times:]
  • And how many betting widows do I see at the hospital, who hardly see their husbands while the betting shops are open! [2010, Theodore Dalrymple, “There’s No Damned Merit In It”, in Life at the Bottom, published 1997:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
3. Proto-Indo-European *dwi-
4. Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-
5. Proto-Indo-European *h₁weydʰh₁-
6. Proto-Indo-European *h₁widʰéwh₂
7. Proto-Germanic *widuwǭ
8. Proto-West Germanic *widuwā
9. Old English widuwe
10. Middle English widwe
11. English widow
12. PIE word
13. *dwóh₁
14. From Middle English widow, from Old English widuwe (“widow”), from Proto-West Germanic *widuwā (“widow”), from Proto-Germanic *widuwǭ (“widow”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁widʰéwh₂ (“widow”), possibly from *h₁weydʰh₁-, *widʰ- (“to separate, split, cleave, divide”), whence also wood from Old English widu, wudu.
15. Cognates
16. Cognate with Scots weedae, wedow, widdow (“widow”), Cimbrian bittaba (“widow”), Dutch weduwe, weeuw (“widow”), German Witwe (“widow”), Vilamovian wytwa (“widow”), Gothic 𐍅𐌹𐌳𐌿𐍅𐍉 (widuwō, “widow”), Old Irish fedb (“widow”), Welsh gweddw (“widow”), Asturian and Spanish viuda (“widow”), Aragonese and Latin vidua (“widow”), Catalan vídua (“widow”), French veuve (“widow”), Galician and Portuguese viúva (“widow”), Italian vedova (“widow”), Romanian văduvă (“widow”), Ancient Greek ἠΐθεος (ēḯtheos, “bachelor”), Albanian ve (“widow, widower”), Belarusian удава́ (udavá, “widow”), Czech, Slovak, and Slovene vdova (“widow”), Polish gdowa, wdowa (“widow”), Russian and Ukrainian вдова́ (vdová, “widow”), Serbo-Croatian udova, у̀дова (“widow”), Central Kurdish بێوە (bêwe, “widow”), Ossetian идӕдз (idæʒ, “widowed”), Persian بیوه (bive, bêva, “widow”), Sanskrit विधवा (vidhavā, “widow”). See: Middle English Nouns 'widwe', Old English Nouns 'widuwe', Old English Nouns 'widu', Dutch Nouns 'weduwe', German Nouns 'Witwe', Gothic Nouns '𐍅𐌹𐌳𐌿𐍅𐍉', Spanish Nouns 'viuda', Latin Nouns 'vidua', Catalan Nouns 'vídua', French Nouns 'veuve', Portuguese Nouns 'viúva', Italian Nouns 'vedova', Romanian Nouns 'văduvă', Ancient Greek Nouns 'ἠΐθεος'.

Verbs referencing "widow"

German Nouns Witwe, Dutch Nouns weduwe, Russian Nouns вдова, Ancient Greek Nouns ἠΐθεος, Gothic Nouns 𐍅𐌹𐌳𐌿𐍅𐍉.