• Alien Nathan Edward@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    wifman = male

    are you sure you’re not thinking of wǣpnedmann? everything I can find about wifman tells me that it means “woman” and the root derivation is “wife person”.

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        9 months ago

        wer and wife

        TIL the etymology of how we talk about shapeshifters in folk myth. Dope, thank you!

        “Working late one night in the lab, Guy Fellows was bitten by a radioactive human being. Now he seems like an ordinary person, but under the full moon he undergoes a transformation and become a wereman! All the powers of an adult male human, trapped inside the frail shell of an adult male human, he is Wereman!”