-
spelling of
woman in
English has
progressed over the past
millennium from
wīfmann to wīmmann to wumman, and finally, the
modern spelling woman. In Old English...
-
category (womxn). The word
woman is
derived from the Old
English word
wīfmann ('woman-person'),
which is
formed from wīf (the
source of wife), then meaning...
- beings, man and woman)
These terms are also used to
qualify compounds;
wifmann (variant wimman)
developed into the
modern word "woman". Wæpned also meant...
- genders: for example, in
addition to the
neuter wif and the
masculine wifmann listed above,
there was also the
feminine frowe.: 6 For the gender-neutral...
- but
meant "a person", and could, like cild, be
qualified with a gender.
Wifmann (variant wimman,
ancestor of "woman")
meant "female person" and was grammatically...
-
exceptions are
neuter wīf ("woman", "wife") and mæġden ("girl"), and
masculine wīfmann ("woman").
Animal names that
refer only to
males are
masculine (e.g. hana...
-
pronoun it "it". When wif was the non-head
member of a
compound — as with
wifmann 'female-person',
modern 'woman' — the
gender of the
compound was determined...
- a
female person).
Other examples include: Old
English wīf (neuter) and
wīfmann (masculine),
meaning "woman"
German Weib (neuter),
meaning "woman" (the...
-
originate from "woven from man", nor from "womb". It came from the Old
English wifmann ("woman human"), a
compound of wif ("woman" – cf. "wife") + man ("human...
- wīf ('wife') was
neuter and
referred to with the
pronoun hit ('it'), and
wīfmann ('woman') was
masculine and
referred to with the
pronoun hē ('he'). English...
