Feminine nouns ending in 'c'

jkirkwood 1 | 14

11 Dec 2007 / #1

Hi, was just wondering if there are many words (common words, I mean) ending in 'c' which are feminine.

e.g. noc

Thanks in advance.

malgo

11 Dec 2007 / #2

i have no explanation. Noc is probably one of the strange exception in Polish gramar.
You have to learn it by heart

e.g
koc - blanket - male
kloc - block - male

OP jkirkwood 1 | 14

11 Dec 2007 / #3

Ok, so apart from noc, there are no common words ending in 'c' which are feminine?

osiol 55 | 3921

11 Dec 2007 / #4

Twarz is feminine isn't it?
There are some feminine nouns not ending with -a.

szkotja2007 27 | 1497

11 Dec 2007 / #5

Is "kac - hangover" masculine or feminine ?

malgo

11 Dec 2007 / #6

it's masculine

z_darius 14 | 3960

11 Dec 2007 / #7

pomoc
moc (derivatives: przemoc, niemoc)

gosiaczek 1 | 85

11 Dec 2007 / #8

There are some feminine nouns not ending with -a.

plenty of them: pieczeń (roast meat), kieszeń (pocket), kość (bone), maść (ointment?), śmierć (death), sierść (fur), pierś (breast), miłość (love), męskość:D (masculinity) etc

Krzysztof 2 | 971

13 Dec 2007 / #9

[quote=gosiaczek] męskość (masculinity) - now, that's a crime against logic and common sense :)

btw, noc may be feminine because of Latin (nox, noctis), but it's only a guess, I'm not even 100% sure the ethymology is Latin (maybe preindoeuropean, because it's feminine (and related) in many European languages that kept the noun genders: French, Italian, Spanish, German, Russian, Nynorsk - in the opposition to the day that is masculine in all of those languages)