widow

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

1. A woman whose spouse has died (and who has not remarried); a woman in relation to her late spouse; feminine of widower.
2. A person whose spouse has died (and who has not remarried).
3. (informal) A woman whose husband is often away pursuing a sport, etc.
4. An additional hand of cards dealt face down in some card games, to be used by the highest bidder.
5. A single line of type that ends a paragraph, carried over to the next page or column.
6. A venomous spider, of the genus Latrodectus.

Verb

1. To make a widow or widower of someone; to cause the death of the spouse of.
2. To strip of anything valued.
3. (obsolete) To endow with a widow's right.
4. (obsolete) To be widow to.

Concepten

weduwe

weduwnaar

wedumnaar

Synoniemen

widower

dowager

widow woman

single

spinster

widowed

widowhood

relict

orphan

make

matron

only

render

separated

alone

surviving wife

survivors

unmarried

widow bird

bachelor

bereave

unmarried man

widowman

whidah

whydah

bereaved person

become widowed

dame

champagne

🍾

divorced person

grass widow

lay

Met koppelteken als

wid‧ow

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/ˈwɪd.əʊ/

Etymologie (Engels)

Overgenomen van Middelengels: widwe

Overgenomen van Oudengels: widuwe

Verwant aan Oudengels: widu

Verwant aan Duits: Witwe

Verwant aan Nederlands: weduwe

Verwant aan Gothisch: 𐍅𐌹𐌳𐌿𐍅𐍉

Verwant aan Oudiers: fedb

Verwant aan Latijn: vidua

Verwant aan Kerkslavisch: въдова

Verwant aan Sanskriet: विधवा

Verwant aan Perzisch: بیوه

In summary

PIE word
*dwóh₁
From Middle English widwe, from Old English widuwe, from Proto-West Germanic *widuwā, from Proto-Germanic *widuwǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁widʰéwh₂, possibly from *h₁weydʰh₁-, *widʰ- (“to separate, split, cleave, divide”), whence also wood from Old English widu, wudu.
Cognates include German Witwe, Dutch weduwe, Gothic 𐍅𐌹𐌳𐌿𐍅𐍉 (widuwō), Old Irish fedb, Latin vidua, Old Church Slavonic въдова (vŭdova), Sanskrit विधवा (vidhavā) and Persian بیوه (bive, bêva), Middle Persian wēwag, Avestan viðavā- "widow" .

Zinnen

His widow , Sahana Pradhan , took over the leadership of the party .

Zijn weduwe, Sahana Pradhan, nam het leiderschap van de partij over.

He is survived by his widow , Lady Skeet , who resides in Milton Ernest , Bedfordshire .

Hij wordt overleefd door zijn weduwe, Lady Skeet, die woont in Milton Ernest, Bedfordshire.