Knowing this probably would make learning romance languages lots easier -it seems like a much simpler version of Latin, and most romance languages suddenly start making sense if you know that one a bit. Kind of silly that they missed the opportunity to stamp out the concept of masculine and feminine nouns once and for all. *still suffering grammar-related traumas from Latin class, because the Romans had no TV and so whiled away the evenings making up new word categories and inflections and rule exceptions for fun*