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9 unusual facts about Grammatical gender


Ayenbite of Inwyt

For instance, the neuter gender and dative case of Old English are still distinguished; þet child bed oure Lhorde, þet gernier/to þe gerniere.

Cher Ami

Cher Ami (French for "dear friend", in the masculine) was a homing pigeon which had been donated by the pigeon fanciers of Britain for use by the U.S. Army Signal Corps in France during World War I and had been trained by American pigeoneers.

Data

The word data is the traditional plural form of the now-archaic datum, neuter past participle of the Latin dare, "to give", hence "something given".

FNAC

the Fnac, a French cultural and consumer retailer (in French, feminine: la Fnac)

the Fonds national d'art contemporain, a French public cultural foundation (in French, masculine: le Fnac)

Friulian language

In Friulian as in other Romance languages, nouns are either masculine or feminine (for example "il mûr" ("the wall", masculine), "la cjadree" ("the chair", feminine).

German pronouns

The German personal pronouns must always have the same gender, same number, and same case as their antecedents.

Modicum

Modicum, word meaning a moderate or small amount (it comes from Latin where it's the neuter of modicus).

Stylidium armeria

In 1878, Jean Baptiste Saint-Lager "corrected" the gender agreement of Stylidium armeria to Stylidium armerium.


Adlercreutzia

The name Adlercreutzia derives from:
New Latin feminine gender noun Adlercreutzia, named after H. Adlercreutzm a Professor in University of Helsinki in Finland), for his contributions to research on the effects of phyto-oestrogens on human health.

Algoriphagus

A. machipongonensis ( Alegado et al. 2012, ; Algonquin noun "Machipongo", Hog Island, Virginia, USA; Latin suff. -ensis, of or belonging to; New Latin masculine gender "machipongonensis", of or belonging to Machipongo/Hog Island).

Old Saxon grammar

Nouns, pronouns, adjectives and determiners were fully inflected with five grammatical cases (nominative, accusative, genitive, dative, and instrumental), two grammatical numbers (singular and plural) and three grammatical genders (masculine, feminine, and neuter).

Tagoi language

The Tagoi language is a Kordofanian language, closely related to Tegali, spoken near the town of Rashad in southern Kordofan in Sudan, about 12 N, 31 E. Unlike Tegali, it has a complex noun class system, which appears to have been borrowed from more typical Niger–Congo languages.


see also

Hamitic

It was the Egyptologist Karl Richard Lepsius (1810–1884) who restricted Hamitic to the non-Semitic languages in Africa, which are characterized by a grammatical gender system.