Timeline for Is it possible to predict the gender of nouns?
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| Aug 20, 2019 at 7:56 | comment | added | Lenny | 2 Decl has an interesting exception: humus, humi, f. | |
| S Mar 5, 2019 at 23:36 | history | edited | Rafael | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| S Mar 5, 2019 at 23:36 | history | suggested | CommunityBot | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 16, 2018 at 14:46 | history | edited | Rafael | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 14, 2018 at 23:13 | comment | added | Alex B. | @Rafael Semantic assignment of gender is “somewhat marginal” in Latin because it only happens with animate nouns, and even then there are some, albeit rare, exceptions. | |
| Aug 14, 2018 at 20:01 | comment | added | Rafael | @luchonacho fixed. Old no. 4 is now no. 1. | |
| Aug 14, 2018 at 20:01 | history | edited | Rafael | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 14, 2018 at 14:11 | history | edited | Rafael | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 14, 2018 at 14:06 | comment | added | Rafael | @luchonacho I should have started from the 4th idea (which I think Alex B. conveys better): in his words, semantic assignment is somewhat marginal (only 8.9%). Semantics is what you are asking for (non technically, meaning, ontology). For example, things tend to be neuter. Besides that, syntax and etymology is the best you can have. See also the wp article I linked in the "it's not completely random" bullet. | |
| Aug 14, 2018 at 8:29 | comment | added | luchonacho | Thanks! That is surely useful, but the spirit of my question (perhaps not clear in the wording) was rather different. In a sense, you reversed the directionality. By knowing declension rules, you can predict the noun gender. My logic is to derive declension rules from gender. Thus, I was hoping for the rules of thumb to come from elsewhere. My logic of why insula was feminine was because in Spanish it is. But I cannot do this with neuter nouns. Thus, is there an ontological reason behind the gender of nouns in Latin? I guess, as you pointed out in a comment, there is not. | |
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| Aug 13, 2018 at 13:50 | history | edited | Rafael | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 13, 2018 at 13:44 | history | answered | Rafael | CC BY-SA 4.0 |