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====Gender==== | ====Gender==== | ||
Classical Windermere had grammatical gender, with masculine and feminine genders. | Classical Windermere had grammatical gender, with masculine and feminine genders. | ||
*For "basic" words, nouns with breathy voice were generally feminine: '' | *For "basic" words, nouns with breathy voice were generally feminine: ''tger'' /tger/ 'voice' was masculine, while ''trămaay'' /trəmaʱj/ 'rain' was feminine. | ||
*Exceptions were human nouns, for which the gender followed natural gender. | *Exceptions were human nouns, for which the gender followed natural gender. | ||
*Words with certain affixes | *Words with certain affixes |
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