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It occurs to me that the solution might be to start referring to men as "wermen" again, and revert "men" to it's gender neutral roots. That also means we can have a bunch of other prefixes for other genders.
Languages are fun.
That's also where the "were" prefix in werewolf comes from.
Does that mean female werewolves should be called wowolves? (Or even better, woowolves)
Wifwolves, unfortunately.
just lean all the way in and call us vermin
https://qwantz.com/index.php?comic=551
Scholars seem to agree it stems from Proto-Indo-European, so Latin is not the source.