The Relationship Between Woman and Adam

The idea is that the animals were a failed attempt to achieve this helper. And there are some folks who argue that, you know, this was about sexual compatibility. So in a sense, it's probably a bit of a folk etymology for why the two words are related. It seems like they may not actually be etymologically related.

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