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Filligree
on Aug 19, 2013
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An Inventor Wants One Less Wire to Worry About
Appearances to the contrary, the word "woman" is not actually based off "man", or indeed very related.
iopq
on Aug 19, 2013
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Yes, it is. It's wif-man, so a "person who is a wife" as opposed to an unmarried girl. That's why women is pronounced [wimen], because that's the original etymology.
phaemon
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Of course it is.
wifman = female human werman = male human man = human
"wifman" became "woman" but the "man" is literally from "man" (meaning human). I'm not sure how much more related you can get.
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