>>125615363>>125612789in old english, 'man'' was a gender neutral term for human, hence words like mankind. 'wereman' meant male human, 'wifman' meant female human. over time wereman became archaic, falling out of use and defaulting to just man, while 'wifman' evolved into 'woman'.
following these naming conventions, a female werewolf would be called a wifwolf, like was said in this thread, but thats a little silly,
