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Re:Why children of married parents do better, but America is... by kirubakaran on Sunday October 22, 2023 @08:30PM (#37980311)
Or the gender neutral, invariant noun: “widowen”

BTW, shouldn’t “widower” be the person who died and the survivor be called “widowee”?

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Re:Why children of married parents do better, but America is... by Retric on Sunday October 22, 2023 @09:18PM (#37980553)
That may seem reasonable but widower is a man whose spouse died. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/widower

“Etymology Middle English widewer, alteration of wedow widow, widower, from Old English wuduwa widower; akin to Old English wuduwe widow”

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Re:Why children of married parents do better, but America is... by hdjjhhvvhga on Monday October 23, 2023 @08:00AM (#37984462)
> Old English wuduwa

It's one of these more universal words of Indo-European origin: https://ids.clld.org/parameters/2-770#2/14.4/149.7

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