• Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de
    7·
    3 months ago

    That doesn’t sound right…

    From what I remember “woman” comes from “wifman”, which is a compound of “wif” and “man”, and back then “man” still refered to male and female persons, and “wer” and “wif” were male and female persons respectively.

      • Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de
        8·
        3 months ago

        except that “man” wasn’t gendered at the time.

        But I included that, didn’t I?

        and back then “man” still refered to male and female persons

        Or do you mean rather than male and female, I should have said persons regardless of gender? I guess that makes more sense.