One of the comments reads : Actually, we will probably never figure out, was it man or woman. but I thought this comment of the professor was an interesting eye opener. https://mastodonapp.uk/@MarkHoltom/112070436760917344

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It occurs to me that the solution might be to start referring to men as “wermen” again, and revert “men” to it’s gender neutral roots. That also means we can have a bunch of other prefixes for other genders.

Languages are fun.

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That’s also where the “were” prefix in werewolf comes from.

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Does that mean female werewolves should be called wowolves? (Or even better, woowolves)

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