| From: | Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, May 5, 2006, 6:56 |
Henrik Theiling wrote:> E.g., German: 'Mann' / 'Frau' are used for both. > To stress, there's 'Ehemann' / 'Ehefrau'.English "wife", in Old English, meant both "wife" and "woman". Likewise, the Anglo-Saxons used _wer_ for both "man" and "husband"