Re: girl

Piotr writes:

1.. Orël & Stolbova in their Hamito-Semitic (= Afroasiatic)
Etymological Dictionary (1995) reconstruct the Proto-Afroasiatic word
for 'woman' as *nüs-. I'm not competent to discuss the validity of this
reconstruction, though it is certainly odd that the next entry is...
*nüs- 'man'.

Gerry here: Piotr, do you, or does anyone else on the list, have an
explanation for the above. I find it intriguing that the same word is
used for both man and woman. And which time frame are we talking about?
gerry