Etymology

herdswoman

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Today it means: A woman who tends livestock, especially cows and sheep. Full definition →

English woman ← Middle English womman ← Old English wīfmann
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The story

  1. Englishherd
  2. Proto-Germanic*wībą
  3. Proto-West Germanic*wīb
  4. Old Englishwīf
  5. Proto-Indo-European*mon-
  6. Proto-Germanic*mann-
  7. Proto-West Germanic*mann
  8. Old Englishmann
  9. Old Englishwīfmann
  10. Middle Englishwomman
  11. Englishwoman
  12. English todayherdswoman

From herd + -s- + woman.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.