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Re: Gender neutral? Myths (Take III)

Subject: Re: Gender neutral? Myths (Take III)
From: "Craig Branham" <ccbranham -at- hotmail -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2003 11:04:17 -0800


From: "Hart, Geoff" <Geoff-H -at- MTL -dot- -dot- -dot- >:

The same note applies to "manual" and many other words prefixed with "man", which derive from the Latin "manus" (hand). Same note about the "man" prefix not meaning anything remotely male in Latin; "man" (as in male) seems to come from Sanskrit, not Latin.

About the last point, I once heard that the word "man" (as
in "mankind") in English may come from the Latin word _mens_
(mentis, f), which refers to the mind or intellect, and that
this also may be where the word "human" comes from.

Craig B.

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