Re: What's a gender?

Den 29. des. 2006 kl. 13.31 skrev Mark Reed:

> Italian is notable for its number of m sg -> f pl nouns, to be sure,
> but Spanish and other romlangs also exhibit the phenomenon.  I believe
> the nouns in question all (or at least mostly) derive from Latin
> neuters, which resemble masculine nouns in the singular and feminine
> (singular) nouns in the plural.
They do the same in Norwegian, actually, unlike Swedish and Danish.
An old IE heritage, I guess.

LEF

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