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# Ancient Netagin had an honorific distinction which required agreement in verbs and adjectives. | # Ancient Netagin had an honorific distinction which required agreement in verbs and adjectives. | ||
# In Late Ancient Netagin, the honorific developed into its own gender, often being used for big, sacred, specialized, or abstract things, in addition to people of high social status. | # In Late Ancient Netagin, the honorific developed into its own gender, often being used for big, sacred, specialized, or abstract things, in addition to people of high social status. | ||
# The word for "lady", '' | # The word for "lady", ''bī3ō'', became the normal word for "woman" (like how ''Frau'', formerly "lady", became the normal word for "woman" in German). | ||
# Thus, the former honorific agreement (in the third person) analogized to all women and became the feminine gender. | # Thus, the former honorific agreement (in the third person) analogized to all women and became the feminine gender. | ||