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It occurs to me that the solution might be to start referring to men as "wermen" again, and revert "men" to it's gender neutral roots. That also means we can have a bunch of other prefixes for other genders.
Languages are fun.
https://qwantz.com/index.php?comic=551
Scholars seem to agree it stems from Proto-Indo-European, so Latin is not the source.