[Klug-general] Gentoo ... hmmm more Cows

[Michael E. Rentell]

On 29/01/11 13:02, George Prowse wrote:

 > Can you confirm or deny that "cow" can be neuter then?
 >
Let's see -
die Kuh - German
la vache French
la vaca Spanish
korova Russian (no articles in Russian).

All feminine gender.

Don't that confirms that in common European languages the cow is 
invariably feminine gender? However, this has nothing to do with sex, 
although in the above languages the gender coincides with sex.

However, what about das Mädchen (the girl - neuter) in German - go figure.
MR