Njörðr [SEP] sex or gender
the Irish word "nert" which means "force" and "power". It has been suggested that the change of sex from the female "Nerthus" to the male "Njörðr" is due to the fact that feminine nouns with u-stems disappeared early in Germanic language while the masculine nouns with u-stems prevailed. However, other scholars hold the change to be based not on grammatical gender but on the evolution of religious beliefs; that *Nerþuz and Njörðr appear as different genders because they are to be
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