Yes, it does! In Bristol, they ask where something is by saying "Where's 'e to?', which for a long time suggested something in motion to my Hants-sprung mind.
I don't know about wife for woman. It could come from either, I'd imagine, as that's the common Germanic meaning (woman = Old English wif-man, iirc), though now preserved mostly in words like fishwife and goodwife.
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Date: 2011-05-28 04:37 pm (UTC)I don't know about wife for woman. It could come from either, I'd imagine, as that's the common Germanic meaning (woman = Old English wif-man, iirc), though now preserved mostly in words like fishwife and goodwife.