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OP It seems that PIE had two genders: animate and inanimate which map roughly to non-o-stem masculine/feminine and neuter.
And both Dutch and Swedish have reverted to this condition - the two genders are "common" (representing masculine and feminine) and neuter. German of course still operates 3 genders (a curse be upon it!)
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