Re: Gender of rivers - and other waters.

Den 3. okt. 2008 kl. 19.31 skreiv caeruleancentaur:

> Senjecas has six classes of nouns.  All things being equal, rivers
> would go in the -os class, the class of perceptible objects.
>
> However, the mythology of the Senjecans puts certain natural phenomena
> in the -es class, the animate class.  These phenomena include sun,
> moon, stars, planets, earth, wind, oceans/seas, and rivers (brooks,
> streams, etc.).  It looks as though "self-" movement might be the
> criterion for including these phenomena in the animate class.
That's interesting. It seems Suraetuans don't do quite the same
thing, because while pora, water, is a masculine (a-class), pofu,
wave, is an abstract or neuter (u-class).

LEF