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wimmin

English

Alternative forms

  • wimmen (eye dialect)
  • wymyn, womyn (feminist spelling)

Etymology

Eye dialect, also used as a feminist spelling of the word women in order to deliberately exclude the word men, which is synchronically a component of women.

Pronunciation

  • See women

Noun

wimmin

  1. Eye dialect spelling of women.
  2. Feminist spelling of women

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wimmen

English

Alternative forms

  • wimmin

Noun

wimmen

  1. Eye dialect spelling of women.

German

Etymology

From Middle High German wimmen, windemen, from Old High German windem?n, ultimately from Latin vindemi?, itself from vinum + dem?.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?v?m?n/
  • Hyphenation: wim?men

Verb

wimmen (weak, third-person singular present wimmt, past tense wimmte, past participle gewimmt, auxiliary haben)

  1. (Switzerland, viticulture) to hold/keep a vintage (grape harvest) (clarification of this definition is needed)

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • Wimmen
  • Wimmer

Further reading

“wimmen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

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