TF-IDF values of categories

[Addsamuels]

Whatever language the scribes themselves spoke was most likely to be a gendered language, which can add a lot of similarities between nouns. If they cut out functional words for efficiency (but kept gender for some reason), I could see nouns like “herb”, “water”, “star” etc dominating and many sharing similarities through gender tags.

Latin, French, German, Italian + slavic languages all have Gender for nouns. These are the likeliest candidates. I do think words like chor means root or plant. It's used in two labels by plants and it's very common in Herbal A (and B)