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[–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Someone else corrected me, I was thinking of wereman. Haven't read Shakespeare in a couple decades

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years 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!"

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