köken: From Middle Persian NKḆ, mʾtk' (mādag), from Proto-Iranian *māta-ka- (“female creature”), from *māta- (“female”), from *máHtā (“mother”). Northern Luri ما (ma, “female”), Northern Kurdish mê (“female”). Compare Old Armenian մատակ (matak), an Iranian borrowing.
feminine (of, pertaining or belonging to the female grammatical gender) · feminine (of a woman, displaying characteristics regarded as positive in a woman; attractive) · feminine (of a male, resembling a woman)
eş: naismainen, napsu
köken: Internationalism (see English feminine), ultimately from Latin fēminīnus and adapted with the adjectival suffix + -inen.
köken: From Old Norse hón (“she”), from Proto-Norse *ᚺᚨᚾᚢ (*hanu), the feminine form, with u-umlaut, of *ᚺᚨᚾᚨᛉ (*hanaʀ) (= Danish han (“he”), Old Norse hann).
Indicates an inanimate, tangible thing · Indicates animals
köken: Cognate with Muong Bi cảy, Tho [Cuối Chăm] keː³, Chut [Mày] kɛ⁴ (Babaev & Samarina, 2018), Chut [Rục] kɛ⁴ (Nguyễn Văn Lợi, 1993). Often linked with Chinese 個 /个 (“one thing; classifier”) (for example, in Alves (2007)); however, as seen with the cognates in the more conservative languages, the earlier vowel can be ascertained to be a monophthongal non-low front vowel, which makes connection with…