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TIL that the word “man” was originally gender neutral and “wer” and “wif” were used to describe males and females respectively. This is where the words like “wife” and “werewolf” are derived from.

via reddit.com

Does that mean a female werewolf is a wifewolf

it’s always been wifewolf y’all are just too cowardly to say it

‘Wer’ was the word for males. It’s the equivalent of saying “man-wolf” in modern English.

And ‘man’ is still still gender neutral in many circumstances, regardless of how much the feminists get upset,

Here’s some fun, in most Indo-European languages there’s a more used and less used word for humans, both are derived from the what the fuck Proto-Indo-European word dhghmón (man and it’s ilk dropping the aspirated voiced consonant clusterfuck) which means earth. Literally the derived word means earthling.