Re:Git 3.0 will use main as the default branch
by SAI_Peregrinus on Monday November 24, 2025 @09:20AM
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Yes, "man" is etymologically a person, "woman" is a female person, and "wereman" is a male person. Over time "were" got dropped, but "wo" got kept, so "man" is either a gender-neutral person or a male person, distinguished based on context. E.g. "mankind" is gender-neutral.
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Re:Git 3.0 will use main as the default branch
by hashar on Monday November 24, 2025 @10:27AM
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« mann » comes from Old English and stands for a human being.
« wïfmann », literally "female human", led to « wife ».
« were » means man and comes from Germanic and I don't think « weremann » has ever been a thing.
Re:Git 3.0 will use main as the default branch
by binary132 on Monday November 24, 2025 @09:56PM
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Blew my mind when I found out “world” is a direct derivative of the word “were”.
Re:Git 3.0 will use main as the default branch
by AdhemarVandamme on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @08:49AM
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“world” is derived from “were” + “eald” (old), and meant “the age of humans”, which was distinguished from the age of the Gods, when the Æsir and Vanir dominated, and the age of the Jötnar.
I find it interesting how the term shifted from a (mythical) temporal concept to a spatial concept, to now often a social concept (e.g. the Fourth World).