How the hell is the language sexist? You know if I were to stretch really, really, really far I could see how something like Spanish with the whole masculine words could be considered sexist. But, English, really?
I hear Russian is a bad language because you know muh Ukraine.
"Woman" is a corruption of "wyfman," which means "person who weaves, " so the last post is half-correct. "Wer" and "guma" were the most common words for "man" back then.
How the hell is the language sexist? You know if I were to stretch really, really, really far I could see how something like Spanish with the whole masculine words could be considered sexist. But, English, really?
I hear Russian is a bad language because you know muh Ukraine.
In Latin, the nouns for certain professions are female. Poeta, nauta (poet, sailor), for instance.
The only instance of a profession being gendered is "woman" which is old english for "man who weaves".
Did you get this from the OED or from your ass? The Old English for 'woman' is wyf. "Woman" is not a word in Old English.
"Woman" is a corruption of "wyfman," which means "person who weaves, " so the last post is half-correct. "Wer" and "guma" were the most common words for "man" back then.
Hmm, maybe I was thinking of another language.