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Re: Gender classes, which to use?

From:Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>
Date:Friday, November 27, 1998, 17:07
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) ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]