Womyn's one of a number of alternative spellings of the word "women". In this article "womyn" will be used for simplicity, although there're many alternative spellings, including "womon" and "womin". The term has been used in modern times tied to the concept of feminism, as a form of the word without the connotations of a patriarchal society. Background The early meaning of the English word "man" (from Proto-Germanic mannaz, "person", and perhaps from proto-Indo-European reconstructed ghmon-) a… (More on Womyn)