OK, lemme explain: 1) Word for table with female gender is bank (where you deposit and withdraw money) — with neutral gender is table.
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2) All animals have female and male and neutral.
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I don't those two are like German. As far as I know of course!
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Example for 1) exist in their thousands.
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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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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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