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uhm, actually
The spelling of "woman" in English has progressed over the past millennium from wīfmann[6] to wīmmann to wumman, and finally, the modern spelling woman.[7] In Old English, wīfmann meant "woman" (literally "woman-person"), whereas wermann meant "man". Mann had a gender-neutral meaning of "human", corresponding to Modern English "person" or "someone"; however, subsequent to the Norman Conquest, man began to be used more in reference to "male human", and by the late 13th century it had begun to eclipse usage of the older term wer.[8] The medial labial consonants f and m in wīfmann coalesced into the modern form "woman", while the initial element wīf, which had also meant "woman", underwent semantic narrowing to the sense of a married woman ("wife").

It is a popular misconception that the term "woman" is etymologically connected to "womb".[9] "Womb" derives from the Old English word wamb meaning "belly, uterus"[10] (cognate to the modern German colloquial term "Wamme" from Old High German wamba for "belly, paunch, lap").