Re: [tied] "Head" words

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:

> Contamination happens from time to time. It's sporadic by its very
> nature. English has <female> (rather than *femel < OFr. femelle)
> obviously because of its folk-etymological relation to <male>, but
> <woman> [wUm&n] has not been remodelled as "woo-MAN" by the same

logic.

But '-man' is unstressed in all compounds of 'man',
*including* 'woman'.

Richard.