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Re:Are Any Words the Same in All Languages? by b3orn on Friday September 08, 2023 @03:04AM (#37430435)
Gender comes from french genre, latin genus, same origin as generic and and means class/kind/sort it just shifted in meaning and now doesn't fit that well anymore.
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Re:Are Any Words the Same in All Languages? by adrian_b on Saturday September 09, 2023 @02:55AM (#37442892)
Greek genos, Latin genus and English kind are cognate words, deriving from the same Indo-European root.
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