It’s kind of a quirk of history that English lost grammatical gender when importing French, German, and Latin words. The closest idea to gender would probably

It’s kind of a quirk of history that English lost grammatical gender when importing French, German, and Latin words. The closest idea to gender would probably be the idea of weak/strong vowels that while no longer codified, is what results in things like see/saw, run/ran, mouse/mice. IIRC Old English had a much stronger sense of these and conjugated many of their words in this way. An example: Mouse -> Mice is valid. Moose -> Meese is not.