Note 356 — PART IV. LINGUISTIC. (continued 2)
Reading edition
Those distinctions, apparently of sex, called by M. Lucien Adam anthropic and metanthropic, arrhenic and metarrhenic, found in certain American tongues, belong to the material, not the formal part of the language, and, strictly speaking, are distinctions not really based on sexual considerations. See Adam, Du Genre dans les Diverses Langues (Paris, 1883).