Actually, the etymology of woman is that it is an evolution of "Wifman", with the word "Wif", the antecessor of wife, being the saxon word for woman and also wife. Lots of languages don't have a specific word for wife, and just use "woman" for it. Greek uses "yinaeka" for both wife and woman, for example. Anyhow, all of the germanic languages use a word like it, Wif, Weib, Vyf, and so on. Wifman just means "Woman-person" and is a compound. The original english word for "man" has actually been dropped, we used to use "Wer", like in Werewolf, which is cognate with Vir, from Latin. "Man" just means "Person" or "Human", but at some point it came also to mean "Male".
Why not just wombmen. Or women for short.
Or just women, period.
Actually, the etymology of woman is that it is an evolution of "Wifman", with the word "Wif", the antecessor of wife, being the saxon word for woman and also wife. Lots of languages don't have a specific word for wife, and just use "woman" for it. Greek uses "yinaeka" for both wife and woman, for example. Anyhow, all of the germanic languages use a word like it, Wif, Weib, Vyf, and so on. Wifman just means "Woman-person" and is a compound. The original english word for "man" has actually been dropped, we used to use "Wer", like in Werewolf, which is cognate with Vir, from Latin. "Man" just means "Person" or "Human", but at some point it came also to mean "Male".
The more you know.
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