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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A wife is a female partner in a marriage. The rights and obligations of the wife regarding her spouse(s) and others, and her status in the community and in law, varies between cultures and has varied over time. The term originated from the Middle English wif, from Old English wA f, woman or wife, from Germanic * wA bam, woman, which itself is related to Modern German Weib (woman, wife), from the Indo-European root ghwA bh- 'shame; pudenda' (cf. Tocharian B kwA pe and Tocharian A kip, each meaning 'female pudenda', with clear sexual overtones) The original meaning of wife as simply woman , unconnected with marriage, is preserved in words like midwife and fishwife . The term wife seems to be a close term to bride, the latter is a female participant in a wedding ceremony, while a wife is a married woman after the wedding, during her marriage. Her partner, if male, was known as the bridegroom during the wedding, and within the marriage is called her husband.

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