tant)
El infante (child under 7; La infanta (child; Span. Royal
also Span., Royal Prince) Princess)
El pariente (relative) La parienta (relative)
El presidente (president) La presidenta (president)
El sirviente (manservant) La sirvienta (maidservant)
There are only a few more of this class.
N.B.--
Un abogado makes in the fem. Una muger abogado
Un medico " " " " " medico
Un comadron " " " " comadre (midwife)
The following nouns of persons and animals have two different forms to
represent the two sexes--
El buey (ox) La vaca (cow)
El caballo (stallion) La yegua (mare)
El carnero (ram) La oveja (ewe)
El fraile (friar) La soror (sister)
El hombre (man) La muger (woman)
El macho cabrio or cabron (he-goat) La cabra (she-goat)
El marido (husband) La muger (the wife)
El padre (father) La madre (mother)
El padrastro (step-father) La madrastra (step-mother)
El padrino (god-father) La madrina (god-mother)
El toro (bull) La vaca (cow)
El yerno (son-in-law) La nuera (daughter-in-law)
Many names of animals are either common, as--
El anade, la anade (the duck)
El liebre, la liebre (the hare)
El tigre, la tigre (the tiger, tigress)
Or they change _o_ of the masculine into _a_ or add _a_, to form the
feminine, as--
Un ganso (a gander) Una gansa (a goose)
Un leon (the lion) Una leona (a lioness)
Un mulo (a mule) Una mula (a she-mule)
Un pollino (an ass) Una pollina (a she-ass)
Most are epicene as already stated (p. 246).
APPENDIX II
SPANISH COMMON NOUNS, IN ORDINARY USE, WHICH ARE USED ONLY IN THE PLURAL
Afueras (environs)
Aguaderas (frames to carry water)
Albricias (reward for good news--also used as interjection: joy! joy!!)
Andas (stretcher, also frame for carrying an image)
Calendas (calends)
Calzoncillos (drawers)
Carnestolendas (carnival)
Celos (jealously--"Celo"--zeal)
Hacer cosquillas (to tickle)
Despabilladoras (snuffers)
Enaguas (skirt)
Fauces (gullet)
Modales (manners)
Mientes--also Mente (the mind)
Parrillas (gridiron)
Puches (sort of fritters)
Tenazas (tongs, pincers)
Tijeras (scissors)
Tinieblas (utter darkness)
Viveres (v
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