Talk:zageman

@Morgengave Is there also a female equivalent zagevrouw? Asking for a friend. :) ←₰-→ Lingo ^Bingo _Dingo (talk) 17:36, 8 January 2021 (UTC)

@Lingo Bingo Dingo Yes, there is, though it is less common. Potentially because of the female gender of the base word zaag (i.e. this word is normally only used to describe women, not men) and/or because of the more erm "eloquent" alternatives zagewijf and zagemie :-) Many more alternatives exist if we explore the words derived from the many synonyms of zagen. Morgengave (talk) 18:07, 8 January 2021 (UTC)

@Morgengave Ah, zagemie is interesting; I forget to say I was looking for equivalents with the root zaag. Is mie directly from Mie? (In the Netherlands we have the related word miep that serves a similar purpose.) ←₰-→ Lingo ^Bingo _Dingo (talk) 18:22, 8 January 2021 (UTC)

@Lingo Bingo Dingo Likely yes; it is in any case a contraction of the historically overly common name Marie. While mie is often encountered in (mostly pejorative) Belgian-Dutch compounds, usage as a simplex is now rare, unlike its now-independent diminutive mieke which is very common in colloquial speech as a synonym for meisje. Perhaps interestingly, mieke is to a certain extent similar to the word griet (from the name Griet, a shortening of Margriet), 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)