English is foundationally a Germanic languge with low German heritage But today high German and modern Englsh still have wlords that sound alike, e.g,, Haus, and house, Buch and book, Milch and milk, Vater and Father, Brot and bread, Hand and hand; Hertz and heart,Schuh and shoe. Yes our English long absorbed many thousands of French words with their Latin roots. Wiilliam the Conqueror was French. England’s Parliament was held in French for two hundred years. The influence of Greek through science and classical literature also made a great contribution to the English we speak. Many European languages have gendered nouns, and the gender is not determined on any scientific rbasis, but rather, for each of those languages, an imputed gender prevailes, sometimes ascribing gender for the same word quite differenly from language to language. And some words are deemed to have no gender, so in German there is the masculine der, the feminine die, and the neuter das as the article the in English. But listen carefully, and you might hear American men talk about their cars in the feminine, “She’s a beatuy.” And whale hunters used the sentenece, “Thar she blows!” Etc. So Engine submits genderized nouns are a holdover from old English, not completely gone yet. There are others.