If we're going to go that kind of linguistic route, then "human" is also just a type of "man". Making "man" still the default.
This kind of argument doesn't make sense to me.
This kind of argument doesn't make sense to me.
and for man:
"Old English man(n), (plural) menn (noun), mannian (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch man, German Mann, and Sanskrit manu ‘mankind’."
Interestingly enough, Manu was "the progenitor of mankind" and in Persian (which shares roots with Sanscrit) after Islam the equivalent "progenitor" Adam [aa-dam] is also commonly used to intend 'mankind'.