French nouns have their own gender, usually only tangentally connected to the items they name. My French/English dictionary is on my desk at the office;
I'll have to look up "witch", "mage", and "sorceror" once I'm back there (later this week) to find out those words'
genders...
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
I'll have to look up "witch", "mage", and "sorceror" once I'm back there (later this week) to find out those words'
genders...
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012