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单词 webb
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webbn.

Origin: Apparently a variant or alteration of another lexical item.
Etymology: Apparently an alteration (in English) of a pidginized form of Narragansett (or another Massachusett dialect) weéwo his wife (reported by Roger Williams in 1643).The use in quot. 1672 is probably based on the following entry in an early glossary with words from Massachusett and related dialects (including some pidginized forms); the spelling system used in this source suggests that the headword was pronounced /wiːb/:1634 W. Wood New Englands Prospect Nomencl. sig. O3v Web, a wife.
Obsolete. rare.
Among Massachusett North American Indians: a wife; a woman.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > married woman > [noun] > wife > native North American
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1672 J. Josselyn New-Englands Rarities 62 One Christopher Luxe..was healed again by an Indian Webb, or Wife, (for so they call those Women that have Husbands).
1676 I. Mather Hist. War with Indians 28 A party of English came in a Warlike posture upon some of their Webbs (as they call them) i.e. Women as they were gathering corn.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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