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by your logic wouldn't merbutler make more since
i thought servant was gender neutral >

Butler =/= maid though
But also, mermaid is not using “maid” in the sense of the profession, but as short for “maiden”, meaning woman. So the masculine version of mermaid is merman. Unsurprisingly >

I'm aware but OP's showerthought implies the connotation of a profession hence "by that logic" >

Just merman considering the etymology of maid when the phrase was created just meant a young woman most of the time >

so what do they call them when they're older? >

Meroldmaids. >

Mervalet? For some reason, that sounds vaguely suggestive to me...