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Or the gender neutral, invariant noun: “widowen” BTW, shouldn’t “widower” be the person who died and the survivor be called “widowee”?

• Retric 3y ago
  That may seem reasonable but widower is a man whose spouse died. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/widower https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/widower “Etymology Middle English widewer, alteration of wedow widow, widower, from Old English wuduwa widower; akin to Old English wuduwe widow”
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  • hdjjhhvvhga 3y ago
    > Old English wuduwa It's one of these more universal words of Indo-European origin: https://ids.clld.org/parameters/2-770#2/14.4/149.7 https://ids.clld.org/parameters/2-770#2/14.4/149.7