Are Married Men "Husbands?" How About a New Term for a New Relationship?

[Jenny A]

That is incorrect with regard to man and woman, at least with regard to subservience, though it does have to do with gender roles.  Man was originally the word for both adult human males and adult human females.  There is an old English translation of Genesis that calls Adam and Eve men.  Werman (weapon man) differentiated males, and wimman  or wifman (weaving man) differentiated females and eventually vowel shifted to woman.  The "wer" eventually disappeared from the language with the notable exception of werewolf.   Wif eventually became wife.

That is an interesting view and worth looking into. I'm coming from a Christian worldview that defines the wo in woman as meaning of man. I never heard it the way you described, Thanks for the education.

Apparently theologians make no better etymologists than they do historians, biologists, or physists.

The spelling of woman in English has progressed over the past millennium from wīfmann[1] to wīmmann to wumman, and finally, the modern spelling woman.[2] In Old English, wīfmann meant "female human", whereas wēr meant "male human". Mann or monn 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 1200s had begun to eclipse usage of the older term wēr.[3] The medial labial consonants f and m in wīfmann coalesced into the modern form "woman", while the initial element, which meant "female", underwent semantic narrowing to the sense of a married woman ("wife"). It is a popular misconception that the term "woman" is etymologically connected with "womb", which is from a separate Old English word, wambe meaning "stomach" (of male or female - modern German retains the colloquial term "Wampe" from Middle High German for "potbelly").[4][5] Nevertheless, such a false derivation of "woman" has appeared in print.[6]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woman#Etymology http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=woman