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# 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", ''bīlō'', became the normal word for "woman" (like how ''Frau'', formerly "lady", became the normal word for "woman" in German). | # The word for "lady", ''bīlō'', became the normal word for "woman" (like how ''Frau'', formerly "lady", became the normal word for "woman" in German). | ||
# Thus, the former honorific agreement 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. | ||
This led to many "great", "majestic" or "sacred" or "specialized" objects being feminine in Classical Netagin. | |||
Example declensions, with ''yaref'' (m) 'wheel' and ''ʔèȝăso'' (f) 'eagle': | Example declensions, with ''yaref'' (m) 'wheel' and ''ʔèȝăso'' (f) 'eagle': | ||