cisfolk

noun

Etymology

From cis- + folk.

  1. inherited from *fulką
  2. inherited from *folk
  3. inherited from folc
  4. inherited from folk
  5. formed as cisfolk — “cis- + folk

Definitions

  1. Cisgender people.

    • Trans* and trans each come from the abbreviation of transgender, the word that I've found resonates most with cisfolk above a certain age.
    • [> A transgender person is going to a lot of trouble to insist on adopting a particular gender. Why wouldn't 'they' want to adopt the usual pronoun?] Separate issues. Some cisfolk might also prefer 'they'.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for cisfolk. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA