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Woman — American Heritage Dictionary
- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- American Heritage Dictionary Editors
- YEAR
- 2022
- PUBLISHER
- HarperCollins
- DOI
- Not recorded
- SOURCE TYPE
- historical dictionary
- EXTERNAL RECORD
- OPEN ORIGINAL ↗
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CONTRARIAN TRUTH CLAIMS
RANKED REVEALS THAT CITE THIS SOURCE
RANK 112GRADE Acontext
Woman does not contain womb.
Old English wīfman combines wīf, woman or wife, with mann, human being or person; contraction hid the compound in plain sight.
wīf
wīf → wīfman → womman → woman
Etymology: wīf plus man personIndependently confirms the components.
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SCHOLARLY DISAGREEMENT
DISPUTE POSITIONS THAT CITE THIS SOURCE
resolvedcontextestablished
Does woman come from womb plus man?
No. The historical form is Old English wīfman, built from wīf, woman or wife, and mann, human being or person.
Etymology: Old English wīfmanIndependently rejects the womb folk segmentation.
resolvedsupportsestablished
Did man inside wīfman already mean only an adult male?
No. In this compound man carries its older human-being or person sense.
Etymology: man, personIndependently gives the non-male-specific component sense.
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CANONICAL RELATIONSHIP CLAIMS
EDGES THAT CITE THIS SOURCE
EDGE 804contextestablished
woman → womman
Present-Day English → Middle English · continuation
- SOUND
- Middle English womman develops to modern woman with reduction of the unstressed final syllable and modern spelling.
- MEANING
- The female-person compound remains the ordinary adult-female noun.
- SCHOLAR / EDITOR
- Merriam-Webster Editors · American Heritage Dictionary Editors
Headword and etymologyIndependently publishes the wimman and wīfman history.
EDGE 805contextestablished
womman → wīfman
Middle English → Old English · continuation
- SOUND
- Old English wīfman contracts and assimilates into Middle English womman.
- MEANING
- The compound remains a woman noun while its internal morphology becomes opaque.
- SCHOLAR / EDITOR
- Merriam-Webster Editors · American Heritage Dictionary Editors
Etymology: wimman, variant of Old English wīfmanConfirms the medieval reshaping.
EDGE 806contextestablished
wīfman → wīf
Old English → Old English · compound component
- SOUND
- Old English wīfman contains wīf as its first lexical component.
- MEANING
- Woman or wife combines with the separately modeled human-person component mann.
- SCHOLAR / EDITOR
- Merriam-Webster Editors · American Heritage Dictionary Editors
Etymology: wīf woman plus man personIndependently supplies the compound structure.
EDGE 841contextestablished
wīfman → mann
Old English → Old English · compound component
- SOUND
- Old English wīfman contains mann as its second lexical component beside wīf.
- MEANING
- The historical human-being or person sense specializes the compound as female person.
- SCHOLAR / EDITOR
- Merriam-Webster Editors · American Heritage Dictionary Editors
Etymology: wīf plus man personIndependently supplies the component and sense.
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Medieval England
Publishes the medieval contraction.
Etymology: wimman, variant of wīfman · regional070
NON-GENEALOGICAL CONNECTIONS
HISTORICAL CONTEXT, KEPT SEPARATE
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