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[-] queermunist@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There's a theory that, at one time, "man" was a gender neutral term for persons and we called males "weremen" and obviously women "women"

That probably isn't true, but it's fun to think about a world where that was reversed.

EDIT Also evidently there was wifmann and wapman, which is an even funnier world to imagine.

[-] oppai420@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

According to this, whether or not it is real:

And we also see wæpman being specifically to refer to a man in relation to penetrative sex.

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