The way we talk about men reveals a fascinating linguistic history. FridlandValerie explains how.
, which tells us that these languages inherited the word from an older Germanic source language. However, its origin story grows somewhat murky as we move further beyond its Germanic past., suggesting that all these words derived from the ancient Indo-European language that spawned both Sanskrit and the Germanic languages, though no evidence exists of such a word itself.was not a way to talk about an individual man.
which translates as “the age of man,” a phrase which eventually became more about the place man occupies, rather the time he lived.One thing that has definitely changed during the age of man is how we talk about him. While the wordbecame a very common way to refer to a male person starting in the 1800s, most particularly in American speech.
Historically, the word derives from a specific person who was named Guy — i.e., Guy Fawkes, one of the Catholic conspirators involved in the Gunpowder Plot, a stymied rebellion that occurred in Britain in 1605. The plotters intended to blow up the House of Lords to get rid of King James’ Protestant regime and Guy Fawkes, as their munitions expert, was caught holding the flame to light the gunpowder hidden under the Parliament building in just the nick of time.
As a result, the day in question, November 5, was subsequently approved as a holiday by Parliament, mainly in celebration of the fact that they were not blown to bits. Guy Fawkes, in turn, was convicted of treason and hung, but his name lived on in infamy because part of the annual November fifth festivities involved burning effigies of the men considered responsible for the plot and these were referred to as “Guys.
However, while most Germanic languages have words for fathers that start with an “f” sound, many other languages use “p” sounds in that position, particularly older languages like Latin , Ancient Greek and Sanskrit .
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