You cannot compare the gender of words across languages. Gender is a property of words, not the concept it refers to. For example, you say that boot is feminin

You cannot compare the gender of words across languages. Gender is a property of words, not the concept it refers to. For example, you say that boot is feminine in both French and Spanish, but look at how it is for various synonyms in Romanian: gheată f (from Italian) ciubotă f (from Ukrainian) bocanc m (from Hungarian) cizmă f (from Hungarian) botină f (from French) "Bocanc" is masculine because it sounds masculine to us (it doesn't end in a feminine vowel like "a"). "Botină" comes from "bottine" in French which is pronounced /bɔ.tin/. It's feminine in French but since it ends in "n" it sounds very masculine in Romanian. It would have been a masculine word if it got imported as "botin" instead of "botină". Of course it isn't always that simple and words which sound feminine might be masculine, or other combinations since we have 3 genders.