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My guess would be animism giving genders to objects along with spirits, and from there on the newer, more abstract nouns either developed from older gendered no
by seszett 5y ago
My guess would be animism giving genders to objects along with spirits, and from there on the newer, more abstract nouns either developed from older gendered nouns or got a default gender.
And it gets continued usefulness as an error detection and correction mechanism.