Re: word gender identity

En réponse à John Cowan :


>Il uovo, le uova in Italian (not gli uovi).
Shouldn't it be "le uove"? I don't know of any Italian feminine plural
ending in -a.

>   Of course that descends
>from a Latin neuter: ovum - ova, reinterpreted as fem. pl.
Strange, I'd rather see it reinterpreted as a feminine singular (IIRC this
happened quite often in the evolution of French).

Christophe Grandsire.

http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.

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