It's possible to speculate that the masculine ending in Protoindoeuropean began as something like the word for male or man, became a classifier ( male child, male person, male sheep ), got reduced to a bound, inflectional morpheme, and spread to all words that were analyzed as grammatically masculine, whether or not they had any meaning of maleness.
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Therefore, it's possible to speculate that the masculine ending in Protoindoeuropean began as something as the word for male or man, became a classifier ( male child, male person, male sheep ), got reduced to a bound, inflectional morpheme ( maychild, mayperson, maysheep ), and spread to all words that were analyzed as grammatically masculine, whether or not they had any meaning of maleness.
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Early Roman Catholic missionaries from Europe used Latin as their international language, and the Latinized names of two of the most influential Chinese thinkers are still used today . " Confucius " was their Latin rendering of the Chinese " K?ng Fkz? " (, lit . " Master Kong " ), removing the lightly pronounced "-g " and appending the Latin masculine ending "-us ".
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The West End language, based on educated " bokm�l ", has the utrum and " en "-endings ( masculine endings on feminine words, such as " gaten " rather than " gata " ), significantly fewer diphthongs ( " " alene " ", " " ble " " ) and other expressions and also a partially different vocabulary than the East End language, basically a language that is more like Danish in most of the districts.
