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Neuter

Posted: Fri Mar 29, 2024 11:37 am
by William A Hupy
From Latin, meaning not either…as in gender. A necessity when learning Latin, as there are three genders, as in German. I’ve wondered how, why and when for ages and still do not know the answer. Also, why words even have genders. Had this been the case in the original Indo European langauage? Did primitive speakers see male and female in all of the flora and fauna surrounding them and thought that words also required a gender? And then there were rocks…any thoughts?

Re: Neuter

Posted: Sun Mar 31, 2024 10:01 pm
by Audiendus
I wondered about this too. See my 'Grammatical gender' thread of August 2022 in the Languages of the World forum, where it was discussed.