Uber cuts 3000 more jobs, closes 45 offices

Re:Uber cuts 3000 more jobs, closes 45 offices by chalst on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @08:47AM (#23234241)

This is a good point, excuse a quibble: 'werman' did not seem to actually see usage in Old English, although 'wepman', meaning male human, did in Middle English.

I'm basing this on a discussion at Wiktionary:

> Their point, that Old English mann was not specifically male, is correct; but their example of the specifically male word is apparently mistaken.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Talk:werman

And 'wepman' is documented on the Middle English Compendium.

https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/middle-english-dictionary/dicti...

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Re:Uber cuts 3000 more jobs, closes 45 offices by slavik81 on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @09:30AM (#23234659)

Thanks for pointing that out. I think Wiktionary is where I first heard the word, and I hadn't seen it was removed.

So, wer did mean male/husband and man did mean everyone. It's just that they weren't used together. I should probably also have noted that woman was 'wifman' back then. That one has more obvious descendants than the male version.

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