Theiling Online    Sitemap    Conlang Mailing List HQ   

Re: Father/Motherland

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Wednesday, May 24, 2000, 10:12
At 19:11 23/05/00 -0300, you wrote:
>Carlos Eugenio Thompson (EDC) <EDCCET@...> wrote: > >>In Spanish the word is _patria_ with shows it relationship with _padre_ >>(father). Then I thing it could count as a fatherland language. > >Yes, but _patria_ is feminine, and it's also common to say >_la madre patria_. There's no masculine equivalent (_país >natal_ could be, but it's much weaker). >
It's exactly the same in French, we have the word "patrie" which clearly related to "père" but is feminine. Moreover, the equivalent of 'motherland' is 'mère-patrie' which would make French more a motherland language. Things get really strange when you look at the symbols of France. One of the symbols of France is the cock (the animal of course :)) ) which is clearly male, while the second (more related to the Republic but still very important) is Marianne, a woman. Well, let's say we're in between :) . Christophe Grandsire |Sela Jemufan Atlinan C.G. "Reality is just another point of view." homepage : http://rainbow.conlang.org (ou : http://www.bde.espci.fr/homepages/Christophe.Grandsire/index.html)