Also, barely tangentially related: flat water is disgusting. ;)
Like head: female word for head means leader — neutral word for head means head.
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Interesting. In German there is der See (lake/inland) and die See (sea/ocean). Pretty much one of the only gender minimal pairs…
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Yeah, and neither of them are metaphorical — so even that example is dramatically different.
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Leave Greek to be used for coining “metaphor”, and then demonstrate it through grammatical gender!
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The word itself means meta + carry.

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You failed to calque “meta”, it is now so ingrained as a concept in English. ;)
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Although in English the meaning is very different to Modern Greek and indeed to Ancient Greek — although closer.
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