Gender in indo-european languages

[nq:1]Unlike in English, most Indo-European languages have gendered nouns. I'm wondering, does there tend to be consistency in nouns being ... where applicable) in the various IE languages, or at least consistency of gender in nouns in the various Romance languages?[/nq]
What sort of consistency do you expect? I don't think there is any.

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[nq:2]Unlike in English, most Indo-European languages have gendered nouns. I'm ... consistency of gender in nouns in the various Romance languages?[/nq]
[nq:1]What sort of consistency do you expect? I don't think there is any.[/nq]
I don't think he's "expecting" anything at all: it's a straight query as to whether words of a given gender in one language tend to have the same gender in anot

[nq:2]What sort of consistency do you expect? I don't think there is any.[/nq]
[nq:1]I don't think he's "expecting" anything at all: it's a straight query as to whether words of a given gender ... or whether it's random. For what it's worth, I think's a brilliant question; there's probably a thesis on it somewhere...[/nq]
It is a good question, but not clearly enough put for me to understa

[nq:1]On 27 Sep 2004, Skitt wrote[/nq]
[nq:2]What sort of consistency do you expect? I don't think there is any.[/nq]
[nq:1]I don't think he's "expecting" anything at all: it's a straight query as to whether words of a given gender ... or whether it's random. For what it's worth, I think's a brilliant question; there's probably a thesis on it somewhere...[/nq]
I thought it was answered

[nq:1]On 27 Sep 2004, Skitt wrote[/nq]
[nq:2]What sort of consistency do you expect? I don't think there is any.[/nq]
[nq:1]I don't think he's "expecting" anything at all: it's a straight query as to whether words of a given gender ... or whether it's random. For what it's worth, I think's a brilliant question; there's probably a thesis on it somewhere...[/nq]
I started learning Italia

[nq:1]Unlike in English, most Indo-European languages have gendered nouns. I'm wondering, does there tend to be consistency in nouns being ... where applicable) in the various IE languages, or at least consistency of gender in nouns in the various Romance languages?[/nq]
In Indo-European, there was (sometimes) a difference in declension between the different genders; neuters, for instance, did

[nq:1]Unlike in English, most Indo-European languages have gendered nouns. I'm wondering, does there tend to be consistency in nouns being ... where applicable) in the various IE languages, or at least consistency of gender in nouns in the various Romance languages?[/nq]
If you mean, according to the meaning of the nouns, even if unrelated words are used in the different languages, then

[nq:1]On 27 Sep 2004, Skitt wrote[/nq]
[nq:2]What sort of consistency do you expect? I don't think there is any.[/nq]
[nq:1]I don't think he's "expecting" anything at all: it's a straight query as to whether words of a given gender ... or whether it's random. For what it's worth, I think's a brilliant question; there's probably a thesis on it somewhere...[/nq]
You hardly need a thesis

[nq:2]On 27 Sep 2004, Skitt wrote I don't think he's ... think's a brilliant question; there'sprobably a thesis on it somewhere...[/nq]
[nq:1]You hardly need a thesis to think of le soleil/la lune vs. dieSonne/der Mond; le chat vs. die Katze; etc.[/nq]
On the other hand, you probably do need a thesis to determine whether there tends to be consistency (as Howard and Harvey both put i

[nq:2]Unlike in English, most Indo-European languages have genderednouns. I'm wondering, ... consistency of gender in nouns in the various Romance languages?[/nq]
[nq:1]If you mean, according to the meaning of the nouns, even ifunrelated words are used in the different languages, then ... But even within Romance, there are exceptions: English French Spanish milk lait (m) leche (f) foot