• Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de
      7·
      1 month 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·
          1 month 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.