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Re: What is a woman ?

From:Eddy Ohlms <etg@...>
Date:Saturday, January 24, 2004, 18:29
Philippe Caquant wrote:

> Thank you everybody ! > > It is very strange to me that in English, the female > seems to be a marked form of the general term for > "man". There usually seems to be 2 different or > symetrical words, like "Mann" und "Frau" in German, > "homme" et "femme" in French, "hombre" y "mujer" in > Spanish, "muj'china" and "jen'china" in Russian. Are > there other natlangs using the English system ?
Esperanto uses the -in- infix to indicate femininity, but I'm not sure about any natlangs.