Where does “gender” come from?

Gender comes from Middle English gendren, from Middle French gendre, from Latin genus meaning kind or type, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European ǵenh₁- meaning to produce or beget.

gender (English): Class; kind; A division of nouns and pronouns ...

Definitions

Class; kind; A division of nouns and pronouns ...

Ancestry of “gender”, step by step

Step	Language	Word	Meaning
1	Middle English	gender	—
2	Middle French	gendre	—
3	Latin	genus	birth, origin, lineage, descent; kind, type,...
4	Proto-Italic	genos	lineage, origin
5	Proto-Indo-European	ǵénh₁os	race, lineage
6	Proto-Indo-European	ǵenh₁-	to produce, to beget, to give birth

Words derived from “gender”

transgender
genderless
transgenderism
genderqueer
crossgender
intergender
gendercide
genderbending
genderization
nongender
genderlessness
postgender
genderism
intragender
genderblind
heterogender
genderlect
transgenderist
genderize
nontransgender
multigender
regender
antitransgender
genderfuck

Every word from Proto-Indo-European ǵenh₁- →

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