la leche
Leo A. Connolly
connolly at memphis.edu
Thu Feb 1 15:23:26 UTC 2001
I wrote:
>>>> Why shouldn't a product of the female breast become feminine?
>>> If anything, it's the masculine forms that need explaining.
Max Dashu replied:
> What, then, are we to make of a feminine form for "penis" in Greek (i psoli)?
Such things can never be guaranteed. I meant to imply only that a
"natural" gender *may* play a role in gender assignment for names of
items proper to one sex only. Obviously there is no "rule" (in any
sense of the word) that it *must* happen. I am mildly surprised by _i
psoli_, but only mildly.
Leo Connolly
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