{"era":"current","word":"widower","meaning":"a man whose wife has died and who has not remarried","children":[{"era":"early 14c.","word":"widow","meaning":"a woman whose husband has died","children":[{"era":"pre-1100","word":"*widuwō","meaning":"widow","children":[{"era":"pre-1100 BCE","word":"*widhewo","meaning":"widow; bereaved woman","children":[{"era":"pre-1100 BCE","word":"*uidh-","meaning":"to separate, divide","children":[],"language":"Proto-Indo-European"}],"language":"Proto-Indo-European"}],"language":"Proto-Germanic"}],"language":"Old English"}],"language":"Modern English"}