Ormå: Difference between revisions

Ormå has four grammatical genders: '''masculine''', '''feminine''', '''passive neuter''' and '''active neuter'''. The distinction between passive and active neuter is quite vague, though the general pattern is that if it is a countable geographical feature that moves by itself, such as a river(''mittä''), it is '''active''' and if not, like a watershed(''nncẽ''), it is '''passive'''. However, some words, like ''krỹse''("snowy mountain"), which would logically be passive, is actually active, because in Ormå mythology, the God of Snowy Mountains, ''Ukkäjan'', supposedly causes avalanches to deter climbers of Mount Kakkijajå, thus making snowy mountains ''active'' deterers of climbers. Many of these logical exceptions in the neuter gender are rooted in Ormå mythology.