Re: Homosexuality and gender identity

Quoting Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>:

> En réponse à John Cowan :
>
>
> >It's Proto-Germanic at least:  _wyf_ 'woman' in OE was also neuter.
> >There are no decent cognates in the other IE languages AFAIK,
>
> Dutch has "wijf", neuter too, and also derogative as the German
> equivalent.
Swedish used to have _viv_, also neuter. To my knowledge, it was never
derogative, but it's obsolete in any case - your average Swede wouldn't know
what it means.

                                                    Andreas

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