Spanish speaking friends: Is there any documentation on how it was decided whether various objects were "male" or "female"? Or do various nouns just have particular genders for no specific reason beyond someone arbitrarily decided it at some point in the past?
All the romantic languages, yes. Not questioning the idea of gendered nouns, just curious if we know how the genders were decided or if it was just arbitrary
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Not sure what is "romantic" tbh, but in my experience it's usually rather arbitrary and different per language.
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Romantic languages are those that are derived from Latin, e.g. originated from the Roman empire
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