• Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 days ago

      On your first post, you implied that the word “manner” was derived from “man” and that one could change that part of the word with “woman”.

      I thought that it may not be true and looked for its etymology and, lo and behold, manner is actually derived from “manus” (hand).

      I do not imply that your comment is wrong, I just wanted to shed some light on it.

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      That manners doesn’t come from the word “man”, it comes from the Latin for hand.

      So instead of womaners, maybe podaners.