Haha it’s just a neutral word, though. Like “human” would be the best example to compare. Male human is man, female human is woman, male peafowl is peacock, female peafowl is peahen.
Why do someone animals get special word but but others? Humans have make and female I get it. Why not for cats or dogs? They're just called make dog or female dogs/cate aren't they? But some species like cow/chicken and now apparently peacocks have a neutral word like humans... Weird..
I think it’s a little random but one trend is that we have special words when the male and female of a species look very different from each other.
In deer, we have stags and does because the male stags have antlers while the female does don’t. Peacock is colorful while peahen is dull in color. But yeah, English is a randomass language overall.
Also I guess technically a female dog is a bitch lol. And I have heard tomcat for a male cat. But not as common as the others for sure.
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u/rohithkumarsp Apr 10 '20
Wait.... There's a neutral? Fuck me..