Talk:vagina
Etymology
edit"Ostler, Nicholas. Ad Infinitum: A Biography of Latin and the World It Created. London: HarperPress, 2009. pp. 323-325" says it is from Etruscan.
Please do not sysop delete my comment ;). Zezen (talk) 15:54, 2 April 2016 (UTC)
Use of 'vagina' to mean 'vulva'
editI saw some discussion on Twitter about the possibility that The Vagina Monologues originated or popularized that sense, so I looked into it. [It's not right, because] Martha Kirkpatrick, Women’s Sexual Development: Explorations of Inner Space (2012, →ISBN), has an example from 1969, when a psychiatrist character played by a real psychiatrist uses it this way in the film Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, and another from 1970; I suspect it's even older. - -sche (discuss) 02:47, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
Vagina for vulva = "analogous to calling the lips the mouth"
editThis doesn't seem to be a correct analogy to me, is it? I may be mistaken, but I'd say that in most people's understanding the lips are the front boundary of the mouth, but they are part of it (like a fence that is the boundary of a plot of land, but is included in it). So if that's indeed the general understanding, "mouth" meaning lips is a totum pro parte. Vagina for vulva is something different, because the vagina in biological understanding does not include the vulva. User:2.201.0.62 (discuss) 19:09, 22 March 2019
- I dropped "mouth" so now it just refers to calling the lips the throat, which seems comparable. - -sche (discuss) 19:55, 22 March 2019 (UTC)
Cognate to Baltic
editIs cognation possible with these?
- a group of:
- vaga#Lithuanian furrow, watercourse
- vagis#Lithuanian thief, wedge
- vag#Livonian furrow
- vagu#Estonian furrow, groove
- vako#Ingrian furrow
- voga#Latgalian furrow
- wagnis#Old_Prussian ploughshare
- vako#Finnish furrow, cleft, fissure
- Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/wagjaz wedge
- Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/vakja wedge, stake, borrowed form 1 or 2.