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SECT. III.

Of Nouns. ((Symbol missingIndic characters)).

Nouns are distributed into six classes, viz. (Symbol missingIndic characters), proper names; (Symbol missingIndic characters) names of sensible objects; (Symbol missingIndic characters), generic names; (Symbol missingIndic characters), names of qualities, viz. adjectives; (Symbol missingIndic characters), names of ideas, viz. absiract substantives, and (Symbol missingIndic characters), imitative sounds.

They are further divided into (Symbol missingIndic characters), names of animals, and (Symbol missingIndic characters), names of inanimate things.


Of Gender, ((Symbol missingIndic characters)).

1. Names of males, and of inanimate things, ending in (Symbol missingIndic characters), are masculine, ((Symbol missingIndic characters)).

2. Names of females, and of inanimate things, ending in (Symbol missingIndic characters) or (Symbol missingIndic characters), are feminine, ((Symbol missingIndic characters)).