Which is a linguistic twist due to "religious truth". In several creation myths, especially the Abrahamic faiths, woman is created from man. The Roman, via Athena springing forth from the forehead of Zeus.Random221B wrote: Apparently, the word "Man" originally did just mean "human" or "person, and a male was a "werman (male human)" while a female was a "wifman (female human)" "Wifman" became woman, while "werman" was dropped in favor of the generic "man" being used for male humans--the unfortunately sexist idea that "male" is effectively the default human, and female is a variant.
In any case, I understand the term "Woodmen" to be generic, just as "Man" means human. It's only in practice, when having to refer to "female Woodmen" that it starts to sound a little awkward."
Woodwives, however, would be a linguistically appropriate and Middle-Earth feeling compromise term.
Ent, Entwives.
Woodman, Woodwife. Woodmen, Woodwives.
Yeah, that sounds like the professor.
Hadn't given it much thought, but now... In my ME, it's Woodwife/Woodwives.