Answer:
The word wife, by itself, used to only refer to the married woman of somebody. But the original meaning was kept in a reduced form of the word that was used as a prefix, to turn into the feminine the word it was added to.
For example , the word wife-man indicates a feminine and generic human being meaning female human.
Therefore, the word wife has evolve through time by adding words to it as shown in the example above.
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