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The Greeks treat their women a little better: while their word for girl, korítsi, is, just as you would expect, of the neuter gender, if one speaks about a pretty buxom girl, one adds the augmentative suffix -aros, and the resulting noun, korítsaros, “buxom girl,” then belongs to the . . . masculine gender.
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
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