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A tribeswoman is a woman who belongs to a tribe. It is the exact partner word to 'tribesman', and everything true of that word is true here — it appears in history writing, in reporting from places where tribes still shape daily life, and in older travel books; and it is a word used from the outside, not one people usually choose for themselves. One difference is worth noticing: 'tribeswoman' is much rarer than 'tribesman'. Part of that is old habit — for a long time writers used 'tribesmen' for a whole group of people, women included, the way they once wrote 'mankind' for everybody. So when a writer does choose 'tribeswoman', it is usually because the fact that this person is a woman matters to the story. If you need to talk about the whole group, 'tribespeople' or 'members of the tribe' does the job without the awkwardness, and most careful writers today reach for one of those. The plural is 'tribeswomen'.
部落女性成員/族中婦女。中文原本就不用性別分詞,講「族人」男女都包含,所以 tribesman/tribeswoman 這組對立在中文裡沒有現成對應;要講明性別時才說「部落女性」「族裡的婦女」。
組成tribe + -s- + -woman. Same linking -s- as in 'tribesman'. The '-woman' half goes back to Old English wīfmann, literally 'woman-person' — wīf (woman) + mann (person). In Old English 'mann' meant a human being of any sex, which is why the word could be built this way at all.
同家族的字
- tribesmanthe same word built with -man instead of -woman
- tribalthe adjective from the same 'tribe'
- womanthe same Old English wīfmann, 'woman-person'
- spokeswomansame linking -s- + -woman pattern
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
tribeswomannoun
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A female member of a tribe.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。