What language does the root word Woman come from?

Answer 1

Good question!

"Woman" is a native English word; it was not borrowed from another language. In Old English (our language as it was spoken 1000 years ago), the word was wifman. The first syllable, wif, is the source of our modern word "wife." In those days it just meant "woman" or "female." The man did not mean "man," but rather "human being" or "person."

Thus, wifman could be understood as meaning "female person." One thousand years later, we pronounce the word as woman, but it is still the same old-fashioned English word.

Answer 2

It means " from man." Notice the "man" in "woman." Eve was made from Adam, so "woman" means "from man." 23And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. Woman is the English translation of the Hebrew word transliterated as 'Ishah' meaning woman and it is derived from the Hebrew word for man - 'Ish'.

Answer 3

The root word "woman" comes from the Old English word "wīfmann," which is a combination of "wīf" (woman) and "mann" (person).