Etymology

wifejak

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Today it means: A wife Wojak, depicted as a redheaded white woman and representing a normal, well-adjusted wife. Full definition →

English Wojak ← Polish wojak ← Proto-Slavic *vojakъ
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The story

  1. Proto-Germanic*wībą
  2. Proto-West Germanic*wīb
  3. Old Englishwīf
  4. Middle Englishwyf
  5. Englishwife
  6. Proto-Indo-European*weyh₁-
  7. Proto-Balto-Slavic*wájas
  8. Proto-Slavic*vojь
  9. Proto-Slavic*vojakъ
  10. Polishwojak
  11. EnglishWojak
  12. English todaywifejak

Blend of wife + Wojak. The original image was posted by Redditor u/AvaSpelledBackwards in 2021 and was popularized around mid-2024 on Twitter.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.