Talk:zageman

Is there also a female equivalent zagevrouw? Asking for a friend. :)  ←₰-→  Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  17:36, 8 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Yes, there is, though it is less common. Potentially because of the female gender of the base word (i.e. this word is normally only used to describe women, not men) and/or because of the more erm "eloquent" alternatives  and  :-) Many more alternatives exist if we explore the words derived from the many synonyms of zagen. Morgengave (talk) 18:07, 8 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Ah, zagemie is interesting; I forget to say I was looking for equivalents with the root zaag. Is mie directly from ? (In the Netherlands we have the related word that serves a similar purpose.) ←₰-→  Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  18:22, 8 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Likely yes; it is in any case a contraction of the historically overly common name Marie. While is often encountered in (mostly pejorative) Belgian-Dutch compounds, usage as a simplex is now rare, unlike its now-independent diminutive  which is very common in colloquial speech as a synonym for . Perhaps interestingly, mieke is to a certain extent similar to the word  (from the name, a shortening of ), but whereas griet often has a lewd undertone, mieke is instead a bit endearing. The word miep is btw interesting - I didn't know the word - and also interesting that it went into a pejorative direction. Morgengave (talk) 18:32, 8 January 2021 (UTC)