Re: Gender classes, which to use?

ta'sudsejot, suddruhkhada-a tza'belihzar, "list James E. Hopkins"
<Espero9@...> ozu-thes:
>Sabutovon sheypaesea! Greetings to all!
>In Druni most nouns are "gender indeterminate" not indicating the
>gender
>unless it becomes important:
>torbar = actor (person who does acting)
>torbarel = female actor
>torbaror = male actor
>klotash = horse (-like animal)
>klotashel = female horse
>klotashor = male horse
>etc., etc.
>
>Jim H
>ta Druntan

Rokbeigalmki is like this also.

All nouns are automatically either of the neuter (genderless) or neutral
(gender indeterminate) genders, depending on whether it has a biological
sex or not.

mald = human
o-mald = man
a-mald = woman
uh-mald = human (redundant _uh-_)
u-mald = genderless human

yagul = fish
o-yagul = male fish
a-yagul = female fish
uh-yagul = fish
u-yagul = genderless fish

wajh = settler
o-wajh = male settler
a-wajh = female settler
uh-wajh = settler
u-wajh = genderless settler

pyet = stone
u-pyet = stone (redundant u-)

Actually, according to the pronouns, it should be _i-_ for female instead
of _a-_, but i explain it that originally it was _i-_, which then went
through a shift (possibly caused by the influence of _i_, "and" which
would be confused with it):
i-  >>  y-  >>  ya-  >>  a-
/?i/ > /j@/ > /ja/ > /?a/


-Stephen (Steg)

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