So, hey there, wasting your time I see? Well, allow me to help. This webpage is a very occasional hobby of mine, not really worth anything. Just a place for me to play around. There are some links below that you should check out. Um, I guess I'll teach a little something.
Some English gender history
Around 900 CE the Latin (L.) word for sperm-producing gender of homo sapiens sapiens was masculus and the Anglo Saxon (A.S) word was wer (e.g werwolf). The terms for the child-bearing gender of the species were, L.- femina, A.S.- wif. The terms at this time for the species homo sapiens s. were L.- humanus, A.S.- man(n).
Hmmmmmm...interesting, the terms changed over the centuries as follows for the sperm-producing gender:
Date Latin Anglo-Saxon
c. 1200 CE masle/ male man
c. 1300 CE male man
the fetus transporters:
c. 1200 CE femelle wifman
c. 1300 CE female woman
then the languages merged into modern english and male, female, man, and woman were accepted and are now our present terms for the respective genders.Then the lower class began to gain higher status and decided to have honorifics derived from the latin magi:
Date Sperm Sperm reciever
c. 1550 CE Mister (adult) MIstress (adult)
Master (child) Miss (child)
over the next few centuries the honorifics came to have connotaions to the marital status of the female and around 1800 Mistress was the proper term, but Missus meant that the woman was married, miss or a further mutation of that term, miz, was the term for any unmarried female. And in in years to come miz was more enigmatic, as it was used where the woman desired to leave the question of availability up in the air.
Well that's the lesson for the moment, don't quote me, but this is how I understand things.
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