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?
Right, I get that part of it (Mesa is the same in Spanish). But who decided it was mesa rather than meso and why?
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There is some stuff that has roots in other words, but must nouns have been decided a long time ago
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Right, I'm just curious if there's any good papers/books on what the logic was back then (since choosing `o` over `a` seems like a rather deliberate choice)
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Ooh, I get what you mean now. That just the name of the stuff, I mean, who decided it is called table?
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