txakur/dzhagaru/cachorro....

[Diogo Almeida]

>From: Rick Mc Callister <rmccalli at sunmuw1.MUW.Edu>
>Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 14:41:17 -0500

>[DGK]
> > Does anyone know why <leche> is feminine?
>
>	There is a group of Latin neuters that became feminine in Spanish &
>Portuguese and masculine in French and Italian.

But "leite" (portuguese for "leche") is masculine ("o leite"), and I'm
pretty sure that it is masculine both in Brazilian and European Portuguese.