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> BTW, back to language and Female stuff, I had hear that man has a Latin
> root for hand as in "mano" from romance languages. Does anyone know if
> it's true?
The dictionary is your friend. :)
No, "man" comes from a Germanic root, not a Latin one. Nothing to do
with hand.
And while we're at it, the ending -man really means -person, not a male,
so the current silliness of substituting -person for -man has no
linguistic justification, besides creating ugly neologisms.
