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# Proto-Quihum had a gender system of common and neuter genders, and also had an honorific distinction which required agreement in verbs and adjectives. | # Proto-Quihum had a gender system of common and neuter genders, and also had an honorific distinction which required agreement in verbs and adjectives. | ||
# In Pre-Talmic, the honorific developed into its own gender, often being used for big, sacred, specialized, or abstract things, in addition to people of high social status. | # In Pre-Talmic, the honorific developed into its own gender, often being used for big, sacred, specialized, or abstract things, in addition to people of high social status. | ||
# The word for "lady", '' | # The word for "lady", ''kabnas'', became the normal word for "woman" (like how ''Frau'', formerly "lady", became the normal word for "woman" in German). | ||
# Thus, the former honorific agreement analogized to all women. | # Thus, the former honorific agreement analogized to all women. | ||
====Masculine nouns==== | ====Masculine nouns==== | ||