Etymograph

English

farmwife

From farm + wife.

A compound of farm + wife

Medieval Latin ferma

Anglo-Norman ferme ‘rent, lease, farm’

Middle English ferme ‘rent, revenue’

English farm

Proto-Germanic *wībą ‘woman’

Proto-West Germanic *wīb ‘woman’

Old English wīf ‘woman’

Middle English wyf ‘woman’

English wife

Today it means

noun The wife in a married couple engaged in farming; a wife who shares in the duties of farming, such as farm management, homemaking on the farm, fieldwork, sales and marketing, or other work.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / farmwife