Re: Indo-European Languages and Gramatical Gender Loss

On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, LEE Sau Dan wrote:

When learning German, I immediately recognized that "Schiff" is a
cognate with English "ship". But it is neuter in German.

But individual ships are feminine in German, even when they are named
after a male person: "die Theodor Heuss".

--
Helmut Richter
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