Proto-Germanic: *widawōn
Meaning: widow
Gothic: widuwō f. (n) `widow'
Old English: widuwe (widewe, weoduwe, weodewe, wuduwe, wudewe, wydewe, widwe), -an f. `widow'
English: widow
Old Frisian: widwe, wide
Old Saxon: widowa
Middle Dutch: wēduwe, wēdewe
Dutch: weduwe, weeuw f.
Old Franconian: widowa
Middle Low German: weduwe, wēdewe
Old High German: wituwa (8.Jh.), { witawa }
Middle High German: wit(e)we, witiwe, witib st./wk. 'witwe'
German: Witwe f.
