Re: What is a woman ?

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