Pretty sure the etymology comes from womb and man.
But I'm not sure if you're joking or just a salty incel and I'm not gonna guess, but the more you know, right?
No, no, no, and no sorry. Has nothing to do with womb or woe. It's from Old English combining wif (adult and female, also where the word wife comes from) + man (human being) to become wifman. Later it morphed into wimman (adult female human) as the f was dropped. In Middle English it morphed again probably caused by the usage of w and it's phonetic sound coupled with a complete lack of standardized spelling. https://www.etymonline.com/word/woman#etymonline_v_10826 So nothing to do with womb and it also needs to be mention that when the word was being created the word man did not mean male it meant human being.
It literally says it isn't from womb. "It is a popular misconception[5] that the term "woman" is etymologically connected to "womb". "Womb" is actually from the Old English word wambe meaning "stomach" (modern German retains the colloquial term "Wampe" from Middle High German for "potbelly")." Misconception: meaning falsehood, incorrect assumption, or error.
*wolpestinges
(es = it)
Or wolptheytingthey
Lol ignore the top part I doesn't come from either
But I'm not sure if you're joking or just a salty incel and I'm not gonna guess, but the more you know, right?
@ewqua I said stuff about why aka the meaning of it