Note: These terms are optional tools, not requirements. Use only what is useful in context.

Genders and Compound Words with “man”

Gender-identity - a socially constructed, self-assigned identity or role, that is anywhere along or in any combination of - man, woman or none of these two - spectrum.

fel - female gender/woman

mal - male gender/man

nex - non-binary or can be used for in-between gender

per - person (used when referencing roles, professions, or individual identity; can replace “man” in compound words)

hum - human (used when discussing humans as species, can replace “man” in compound words, just like “per”, by using “hum” instead of “per” one can specify the entity is human)

ent - entity, used the same as “hum” but can be used on any species.

Examples of reworked words:

Original	FMEWS	Alternative
mankind	humankind / humkind	humankind
chairman	chairper / chairhum (if needed to specify it is human)	chairperson
mailman	mailper / mailhum	mailperson
manmade	permade / hummade	handmade / artificial
every man for himself	every hum for themselves	everyone for themselves
young woman	young fel
young man	young mal
old man (gender-neutral)	old hum/oldper	old human / old person

Note: This table shows FMEWS-style options, not all possible alternatives.

Sexes

Sex - relates to physical sex characteristics (chromosomes, hormones, gonads, genitalia) and roles in species reproduction - male, female, intersex. (That’s also why this word also refers to the sex act, because it is literally about physical role in that process).

Anderic - male sex

Gyneric - female sex

Interic - intersex

The sexes Anderic and Gyneric come from Greek, Andro meaning Male, Gyno meaning Female

Assignment

Since changing sex is a thing, there are also separated terms for what someone was assigned at birth