Re: [tied] Re: Dumezil, Trito and Athena: MY IE main Gods

> Modern Arabic /shams/ "sun" is actually feminine (although it looks
> masculine), and /qamar/ "moon" is masculine.
> Shams is one of very few feminine words in Arabic that don't carry the
> feminine termination /-a(h)/-at-/. The only others I can think of are
> /?umm/ "mother", /suuq/ "market" which is usually feminine, but can be
> masculine, and /Tariiq/ "road, way" which can be either.

There's a couple more /nafs/ "soul" can be both, also the body parts
that come in pairs are usually feminine, like /rijl/ "foot" but the
ones thatr don't come in pairs are masculine.

mvh

Harald