2003: Gender for a 'god' Jun 9, 2020
Although lots of Indo-European languages have separate words for a 'god', in some cases at least there was a shift as Europe Christianized. For instance, while English does not display grammatical gender (except in pronouns), Old English did. In Old English, the gender for the word for 'G-d' was originally neuter when the culture was paganistic (just 'god' in Old English) but changed to the masculine to reflect the change in religion.
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