SEXIST LINGUISTICS

This is less of a single etymology and more of a bunch of sexist linguistic connections that aren't intricate enough to get their own stories, but definitely worth sharing, nonetheless:

• In Chinese, the character for "woman" is 女 while the word for "quarrel" or "dispute" is 奻, or "two women". Thankfully, the latter is falling out of use, but it is still a thing.
• In Spanish, esposa means "wife" and esposas are handcuffs (connected through Latin spondere, "to bind")
• In Dutch, gift simultaneously means "marriage" and "poison". These both might be from a root meaning "to give".
• In English, people refer to their wives as "the old ball and chain"
• 女 in Japanese also means "woman", but three of those characters in a triangle can mean "noisy"

It is a popular misconception that English woman is equivalent to womb + man, but this is wrong. In Old English, it was a word basically meaning "female human". While this may not have been a misogynistic origin, they abound elsewhere, as you can see above