• Good Girl [she/they]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    4 months ago

    Proposal: either smoosh them together (eg: ella / loas)

    As neat as that’d be, ella ([ɛlə] not [ɛjə]) was already a word and got shortened to la.

    As in ella agua, ella manzana, ella persona.

    Not to say we can’t repurpose things, but it was already a preexisting feminine word.