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From: olivier@austin.ibm.com (Olivier Cremel)
Subject: Re: International Language.
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In article <1995Jan9.215743.1541@midway.uchicago.edu>, deb5@ellis.uchicago.edu (Daniel von Brighoff) writes:
> 
> If you know of a European language possessing specifically feminine
> agent nouns *not* derived from the corresponding masculine forms,
> please share.  If there are some, I'd like to know more about them.

French.

I think you would have a hard time proving that -euse is semantically
derived from -eur. They are not even linked etymologically.

-- 
Olivier.
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