El Volga [210] (the Volga)
And all words ending in accented _a_.
[Footnote 210: And all rivers and mountains ending in _a_.]
4. Masculine nouns ending in _d_--
El adalid (the warrior or chieftain)
El ardid (the trick)
El ataud (coffin)
El cesped (the turf, lawn)
El sud (the south)
5. Masculine nouns ending in _ion_--
El embrion (the embryo)
El gorrion (the sparrow)
El morrion (parts of an armour)
El sarampion (measles)
6. Feminine nouns ending in _i_ or _y_--
La diocesi (the diocese)
La grey (the flock)
La ley (the law)
La metropoli (the metropolis)
Almost all.
7. Feminine noun ending in _j_--
La troj (the granary)
8. Feminine nouns ending in _l_--
La cal (lime)
La capital (capital--town)
La carcel (prison)
La col (cabbage)
La miel (honey)
La piel (skin)
La sal (salt)
La senal (signal)
La vocal (vowel)
And a few more.
9. Feminine nouns ending in _n_--
La cargazon (the load)
La crin (the horsehair)
La desazon (the ailment)
La imagen (the image)
La razon (the reason)
La sinrazon (the injustice)
La sarten (the frying-pan)
La sien (the temple)
Almost all.
10. Feminine nouns ending in _o_--
La mano (the hand)
Only word, excepting "nao" (ship), now obsolete, and "seo" (cathedral),
little used.
11. Feminine nouns ending in _r_--
La flor (the flower)
La labor (the needlework)
La segur (the axe)
Almost all.
12. Feminine nouns ending in _s_--
La bilis (the bile)
La crisis (the crisis)
La elipsis (ellipsis)
La lis (fleur-de-lis)
La mies (the crop)
La perifrasis (the periphrase)
La tos (the cough)
And a few others.
13. Feminine noun ending in _u_--
La tribu (the tribe)
14. Feminine nouns ending in _z_--
La codorniz (the partridge)
La cerviz (the cervix)
La cruz (the cross)
La coz (the back-kick)
La luz (the light)
La nariz (the nose)
La nuez (the nut)
La pez (the pitch)
La voz (the voice)
La raiz (the root)
La tez (the complexion)
La vez (the time, once, etc., etc.)
And a few others less important.
15. Feminine nouns ending in _e_. (This is the most numerous list of
exceptions)--
Las aves (the birds)
La barbarie (the barbarity)
La base (the basis)
La calle (the street)
La carne (the flesh)
La fiebre (the fever)
La fuente (the fountain)
El hambre (_f._), (the hunger)
La mente (the mind)
La noche (the night)
La parte (the part)
La quiete (the quiet)
La sangre (the blood)
La serpiente (the serpent)
La torre (the t
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