| From: | Jerome S. Colburn <jscolbur@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, November 10, 1999, 6:47 |
> > > wer, as in werhad, "masculinity," > > > carries the gender. But there is always an extent to which these > > > words become more generic, so you can speak of a female werwolf > > > when "wer" is replaced in later English by "man."Sort of like those human-shape robots in science fiction that are always called androids even when (like those made by Mr. Harcourt Fenton Mudd) they're gynecoid. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % Jerome Colburn % jscolbur@prairienet.org % cirth a ti^w a curudi^w...