From: | Peter Bleackley <peter.bleackley@...> |
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Date: | Friday, January 23, 2004, 14:29 |
Staving Philippe Caquant:>Could somebody here please explain me the etymology of >the english word "woman" ? Is it "wo-man", and it that >case, what does "wo" mean, or is it some deformation >from "femina" for instance ? Or something else ?OE wifman, from "wif" wife, woman, female, "man" person. Pete