Editing Gender (section)

=== Derivation ===

The modern English word ''gender'' comes from the [[Middle English]] ''gender'', ''gendre'', a [[loanword]] from [[Anglo-Norman language|Anglo-Norman]] and [[Middle French]] ''gendre''. This, in turn, came from [[Latin]] ''[[wikt:genus#Latin|genus]]''. Both words mean "kind", "type", or "sort". They derive ultimately from a [[Proto-Indo-European language|Proto-Indo-European]] (PIE) [[Root (linguistics)|root]] *''ǵénh₁-'' 'to beget',<ref>{{cite Q |Q131605459 |first=Don |last=Ringe |author-link=Donald Ringe |page=61 |access-date=16 October 2021 |mode=cs1 }}</ref> which is also the source of ''kin'', ''kind'', ''king'', and many other English words, with [[cognate]]s widely attested in many [[Indo-European languages]].<ref>[https://www.yourdictionary.com/ahd/roots/zzg00600.html 'Gen'] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091019143951/https://www.yourdictionary.com/ahd/roots/zzg00600.html |date=19 October 2009 }}. Your Dictionary.com</ref> It appears in Modern [[French language|French]] in the word ''[[genre]]'' (type, kind, also ''[[:fr:genre sexuel|genre sexuel]]'') and is related to the [[Greek language|Greek]] root ''gen-'' (to produce), appearing in ''[[gene]]'', ''[[wikt:genesis|genesis]]'', and ''[[oxygen]]''. The ''Oxford Etymological Dictionary of the English Language'' of 1882 defined ''gender'' as ''kind, breed, sex'', derived from the Latin ablative case of ''genus'', like ''genere natus'', which refers to birth.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/etymologicaldict00skeauoft/page/n5|title=An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language|last=Skeat|first=Walter William|publisher=Clarendon Press|year=1882|location=Oxford|pages=230}}</ref> The first edition of the ''[[Oxford English Dictionary]]'' (OED1, Volume 4, 1900) notes the original meaning of ''gender'' as "kind" had already become obsolete.