does 'woman' come from 'man'? #linguistics #language #etymology

[portal]

Isn’t “wer” where we also get “were” as in “werewolf”?

[alexreid]

It’s also worth mentioning that “human” is not related to “man” at all

[ayezz]

Close enough, welcome back etymology guy

[depufull]

Petition to bring back the word "Wapman" to be man and "Man" to be human

[juewang]

this is also why women is pronounced like wimmin. the first vowel of wīfmann survived in the plural.

[izmir_city]

Okey you werman, gotta respect for giving us a new idea to call to men. Werman and women

[turboluck]

I keep trying to explain this to people, tysm

[Seraph]

"wæp"

*Cardi B's infamous "WAP" song appears for a brief second.*

Me: *1, 000 Yard stare*

[gabrieliusgiedra]

I love the parallel:
Wer - old english, Vyras - Lithuanian (my home language)

[Theo-cxh]

Wer is also related to English werewolf (man-wolf) equivalent to German: Wehrwolf and has a second meaning which is "defense, protection" related to modern German "Wehr" protection "Gewehr" and it's where the Wehr in Wehrmacht and Bundeswehr comes from.

[polari]

I was thinking of this when you talked about Esperanto criticism for woman being suffixed man.

[rega]

Great useful topic. I always wondered about that

[gurs-]

In Sanskrit also, there is a similar word 'Manav' for humans. Indo-European after all.

[clovebeans]

Wer is the cognate of 'vyras' and 'veer/veera" meaning warrior/male ?

[NikkiTheViolist]

everyone getting bitten by werewolves
but
all the people bitten by wifewolves are keeping silent

[rsfaeges]

This is best explanation of this I've come across. I especially liked having the pronunciation of the various words

[kevinclass]

koine Greek has "anthropos" ανθροπος. Which has a meaning closer to human. But some people still insist on that it means exclusively "dudes".

[VaraKyla]

I can see language change even in this video, history down the drain but this here helps revive it sorta.

[GramSmasher]

I highly recommend this guy visits around England and listen to the rural English regional accents, he'll be very surprised by the pronunciation and how much in common it has with old English, the more north you go the stronger it is (with the exception of Scouse, which is an Irish corruption brought by immigrants)

[ZadenZane]

Haha I live in London and I pronounce man with an old English accent!
In German they still say weiblich (cognate with"wifely") to mean just female