[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Artificial

[Paul Allen]

On Wed, 21 Oct 2020 at 15:00, Matthew Woehlke <mwoehlke.floss at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 21/10/2020 00.57, Robert Delmenico wrote:
>
> Also:
>
> > The word 'Man' in the Old English sense 'mann' had the primary meaning
> of "adult male human"
>
> Citation needed, particularly as the other thread contains a statement
> which directly contradicts this.
>
> It was I who made that statement.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/man#Etymology_1

See also the usage notes on that page for a little more of the
etymology (it clarifies aspects that are ambiguous in the etymology
ifself).  It also gives a link to the Old English "mann" (from which
"man" derives) that makes clear that the primary meaning of
"mann" in OE was person/human and that it was rarely used
to mean adult male.  https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mann#Old_English

-- 
Paul
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