[Lexicog] gendered language references

[Fritz Goerling]

Ken, I find nothing striking about that in the same way as I do not find it
striking that German "Vaterland" has "Vater" (= father) and "Land" (neuter
gender).

 

Fritz

 

Ken Hill wrote:

Grammatical gender is an insufficient explanation. I find it striking that
in Spanish, the word for "fatherland" is grammatically feminine: la patria.
Patria is a Latin word derived from pat(e)r 'father' + the feminine
derivational suffix -ia.

--Ken



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