Re: man- (was: logic vocabulary)

Steg Belsky scripsit:

> Does that mean that in Old English they talked about not just
> _werewolves_, but _wifewolves_ too?
We don't know.  The word "werewulf" appears only once in the surviving OE
corpus, in a figurative sense, and clearly referring to overlords who
over-tax their people.

But it sounds good to me!

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