Talk:vagina

Etymology
"Ostler, Nicholas. Ad Infinitum: A Biography of Latin and the World It Created. London: HarperPress, 2009. pp. 323-325" says it is from Etruscan.

Please do not sysop delete my comment ;). Zezen (talk) 15:54, 2 April 2016 (UTC)

Use of 'vagina' to mean 'vulva'
I saw some discussion on Twitter about the possibility that The Vagina Monologues originated or popularized that sense, so I looked into it. [It's not right, because] Martha Kirkpatrick, Women’s Sexual Development: Explorations of Inner Space (2012, ISBN 1468436562), has an example from 1969, when a psychiatrist character played by a real psychiatrist uses it this way in the film Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, and another from 1970; I suspect it's even older. - -sche (discuss) 02:47, 11 March 2019 (UTC)

Vagina for vulva = "analogous to calling the lips the mouth"
This doesn't seem to be a correct analogy to me, is it? I may be mistaken, but I'd say that in most people's understanding the lips are the front boundary of the mouth, but they are part of it (like a fence that is the boundary of a plot of land, but is included in it). So if that's indeed the general understanding, "mouth" meaning lips is a. Vagina for vulva is something different, because the vagina in biological understanding does not include the vulva. User:2.201.0.62 (discuss) 19:09, 22 March 2019


 * I dropped "mouth" so now it just refers to calling the lips the throat, which seems comparable. - -sche (discuss) 19:55, 22 March 2019 (UTC)

Cognate to Baltic
Is cognation possible with these? Paulo Calipari (talk) 15:07, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
 * 1) a group of:
 * 2) *vaga furrow, watercourse
 * 3) *vagis thief, wedge
 * 4) *vag furrow
 * 5) *vagu furrow, groove
 * 6) *vako furrow
 * 7) *voga furrow
 * 8) *wagnis ploughshare
 * 9) *vako furrow, cleft, fissure
 * 10) Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/wagjaz wedge
 * 11) Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/vakja wedge, stake, borrowed form 1 or 2.