Does the word intelligent assume gender?
Some words make me wonder about origin.

I think of stuff like this when I see words like that:
https://youtube.com/watch/...

For the lost: intelli gent -> intellectual gentleman (gent)

since i don't know my limits:
intelligens, intelligentis = participle of intellegere. so the "gent" part is a mere transformation (genitive of present participle) of the "gere" part of "intellegere" (understand) or more specifically of the "legere" part (select) シ

@Demolishun for the morons who compensate for lack of education and thinking by assuming sexism everywhere: see the comment above this one.

@Midnight-shcode It was a legit question. I didn't know the origin. I didn't think people here would attack and be assholes. I was wrong.

@Demolishun well... that's the problem.

you don't know the origin, and instead of going and doing some extremely basic research, you jump to the assumption of sexism for whatever reason.

that's exactly the problem, and the reason why my comment was so aggressive. there's too many people who without thinking and doing research immediately jump to the assumption of sexism, and it's wreaking havoc on society.

all you needed to do was google "etymology of intelligence" and the second result would be

https://etymonline.com/word/...

which explains it in detail, even with a flowchart.

instead you chose to willingly stay ignorant and assume sexism.

@Midnight-shcode ah, I get it now. You are the self appointed anti-sjw police. Sorry dude, you got the wrong guy. I am the complete opposite of that. I just find patterns that are interesting and talk about them.

My main interest is words is due to the idea that words are spells. (You can search for this concept.) Like the language we use embeds thoughts and feelings we are unaware of consciously. I am dubious as to whether this is really a thing. But I see patterns and think they are interesting. This is what makes me good at writing software. Patterns and pattern matching. Need to solve a problem I look for what patterns and which solutions to look for that match those common patterns. So the word thing is simply seeing a pattern and wondering if it affects people. One example of this is the word "weekend". Does this word send subconscious idea that the we are weak at the end of the week? Or does our brain assign meaning that is immutable? Is there crossover?

@Demolishun nah, the word weekend sends the subconscious message that the end is weak.

obviously.

... in other words... okay, if you enjoy thinking about nonsense, good for you, but don't then get surprised or offended when someone points out it's nonsense ;)

@Demolishun
p. s. there is a very easy way to test these hypotheses of yours:
self-reporting questionnaires about energy levels at the end of the week of native english speakers versus literally any other fucking language where thr term for weekend isn't a joining of homonyms for "weak" and "end".

for example slovak, my native language, where weekend is still called weekend (just spelled and pronounced a bit differently), even though the constituent parts of that word literally don't mean anything in my language.

now that i think of it, THAT'S weird - our native word for weekend seems to be taken from pretty much modern english... why is that?

oh, okay, the weekend thing makes sense, the concept of two free days IS very new in my country/culture, it's basically about as old as me, before then, we only had sundays, which are in my language literally caled "a day of no work", but then when saturday was added as a free day too, we didn't have any name for the pair as a whole, so we took the english name, since probably even the custom itself of two free days was taken from english culture, since it was, back then, percieved as the more advanced one.
(heh, the good old days when americans were the more advanced ones... =D)