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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Interesting. In German there is the old (biblical) word "Männin". Which is literally the female form of "Mann" (man). Maybe the original language the translation comes from has something similar.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Männin is more of a word Luther came up with when translating the bible and no one used ever since (except in quoting Luther of cause).

The thing is that in Hebrew, man and woman are the same but with other ending. Luther tried to recreate that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Thanks for the info. Serious discussion under a meme post :-)

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