GENDER

is the form given to a noun or pronoun to show a distinction in grammar (i.e. between words) corresponding to the distinction of sex (i.e. between animals). It is marked in English Dy prefixes, suffixes, and different words and these prefixes and suffixes are either separable; and Teutonic, or inseparable and Romance. Cf. 'Tic-goat,' ‘pea-hen,’ ' count-e/M,’ etc. When we talk of one noun being the feminine of another we mean that it is either derived from it, as lad and la(de) , or used with it, as uncle and aunt