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let me hear your voice tonight ([personal profile] alexseanchai) wrote in [community profile] linguaphiles 2022-07-01 03:06 am (UTC)

"queen" and a particularly rude word for the vagina or possibly vulva both come from the Proto-Indo-European for "woman"; as with both examples above, I suspect both etymologies of having a lot to do with how much respect for women the speakers had or lacked

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