gender voice variants
John Cowan
cowan at mercury.ccil.org
Fri Dec 21 20:02:04 CET 2012
Patrick scripsit:
> As far as I remember, there is something similar in ancient Greek
> for small children: ?? ??????, -?? (to teknon, -ou) : a child of
> either sex, as in German das Kind.
Yes, of course. The question is whether a boy speaking Classical Greek
referred to himself with masculine or neuter adjectives; I'm sure it
was the former. But I've asked a Classical scholar, just to make sure.
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