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I like that you call some nonsense about woman meaning wifeman an “exchange of ideas”. It’s utter nonsense, so in what sense is it an idea - that you thought of it? Or have you been reading “A history of English words for people with preconceived notions”?

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That’s is literally it’s origin, I’m sorry facts are offensive to you.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/woman

adult female human," late Old English wimman, wiman (plural wimmen), literally “woman-man,” alteration of wifman (plural wifmen) “woman, female servant” (8c.), a compound of wif “woman” (see wife) + man “human being” (in Old English used in reference to both sexes; see man (n.)). Compare Dutch vrouwmens “wife,” literally “woman-man.”

Takes three seconds to look up bud.

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Yet you didn’t bother to read it…

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In what way boss. Vague answers aren’t a thing worth giving in this context, you’re not a yogi just say what you mean.

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Yeah buddy. That doesn’t say it means or has ever meant wifeman. Woman has always, from its first use up to now, meant a female human. So you read things and then interpret them as having whatever meaning you like?

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You’re a bafoon. Quote where I said it meant wife man or in any way departed from the cited evidence.

You don’t know what you’re talking about, that’s ok.

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