Re: word gender identity

Henrik Theiling scripsit:

> It that a French-only phenomenon?  'Amour' is special anyway because
> it was re-borrowed from another romancelang (Occitan?), right?  (Had
> it not been, it would be 'ameur').  But are there examples from other
> romancelangs that have similar things?  (I would not expect this too
> much in Italian or Spanish due to the highly syntactic pluralisation
> showing gender so overtly, but who knows?)
Il uovo, le uova in Italian (not gli uovi).  Of course that descends
from a Latin neuter: ovum - ova, reinterpreted as fem. pl.

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