FEMININE identityOLD English languageNOUNSOLD English grammarWORD formation (Grammar)MASCULINE identityThe article investigates the interpretation of the Old English esa gescot and esa gescotes in the metrical charm, also known as For a Sudden Stitch. It suggests that esa refers to goddesses, the ...
Nominal gender-marking is a complex linguistic device, one aspect of which is the obligatory use of masculine, feminine, and neuter articles for modifying nouns in languages such as German. By way of illustration, German speakers must use the masculine der (and its variants) as the definite ar...
For example, "wīf" (woman) is neuter and "wīfman" (woman) is masculine; and nouns that refer to inanimate objects are often masculine or feminine.Old English nouns are divided as either strong or weak. As in nouns, Old English adjectives can also be declined into strong or weak, the...
There is evidence that some additional breeding was done with the Old English Bacon Pig (now the British Saddleback Obstajajo dokazi, da se je izvajala dodatna reja s pasmo Old English Bacon Pig (zdaj British Saddleback oj4 Tor is an English word referring to a high rock or a hill,...
Old English-istre, from Proto-Germanic*-istrijon, feminine agent suffix used as the equivalent of masculine-ere(see-er(1)). Also used in Middle English to form nouns of action (meaning "a person who ...") without regard for gender. ...
It has only one derivation, namely the feminine noun כרה (kera), thought to mean feast, which also occurs only once, also in 2 Kings 6:23. כרר The verb כרר (karar) occurs only in one context, but from that context (and its usages in cognate languages) it'...
Middle English rak(e), Old English raca (masculine), racu (feminine); c. German Rechen; (v.) Middle English raken, partly derivative of the n., partly < Old Norse raka to scrape, rake] rak′er, n. rake2 (reɪk) n. a dissolute or profligate and usu. licentious man; ...
Hebrew is a dynamic language; things are defined after their behavior, and nouns are usually derived from verbs; English is a static language where things are known for what they look like and verbs usually come from nouns (see our explanatory article To Be Is To Do). ...
To cite an example, the simple name Hallr (feminine: Halla) is documented as the first element of many compounds: (masculine) Hallbiorn, Halldór, Hallfreðr, Hallgeirr, Hallgrímr, Hallkell, Hallormr, Hallsteinn, Hallvarðr, (feminine) Hallbera, Hallbjorg, Halldís, Halldóra, Hall...
Obviation, or the fact that the subject of the subjunctival subordinate clause cannot be coreferential with the subject of the main clause, as seen by the French example, *je veux que je parte ‘I want that I leave’ (cf. Ruwet 1984), is a topic that has