Question regarding Grammatical Gender vs. Biological Gender in Russian

[Denis Akhapkin]

Hello, Emily.

"Слова с уменьшительным и увеличительным значением, мотивированные
существительными муж. р. I скл." (РГ-80, п. 1184)
http://rusgram.narod.ru/1173-1193.html#1184

Ср. "огромный домина".

Best,

Denis Akhapkin

16 июня 2011 г. 2:50 пользователь Emily Saunders <emilka at mac.com> написал:
> Hello,
>
> I thought I'd throw this question out to the SEELANGS wealth of expertise.
>  Masculine nouns occasionally end in -a or -я in names like Ваня, Миша, and
> in words like дедушка, папа, дядя.  And necessarily these take feminine
> declensional endings in spite of the underlying biological masculine gender.
>  My question is whether anyone can think of any *inanimate* masculine nouns
> that end in -a/-я (if there are any)?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Emily Saunders
>
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