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Old 01-28-2024, 10:51 AM   #82
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Originally Posted by Sirtel View Post
Those old Germanic tribes were real male chauvinists.
(Seriously though, most people at that time probably were).

I wonder if man=human also occurs in other languages besides the Germanic?
Women could have a very high status in Viking societies and were arguably much freer than in the period after Christianity. So I'm not sure such conclusions can be drawn from the man-human word connection (I don't know much about the southern varieties of Germanic or the societies where they developed, though.)
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