User blog comment:Eðkee/After having called on þis site for going on two or þree years now, I step forþ to offer my help./@comment-70.15.1.113-20171229233231/@comment-34075916-20171230161452

Well, first, it is gender-neutral, I grant. However, þe word 'þon' I intend to be a replacement for þe word 'þey' in its gender-neutral use.

Second, þe separation between formal and informal is, I grant, a borrowing from French. However, þe distinction already exists subtlely. Þou, due to its archaicalness and its use in Shakespeare, is holden as very formal, in spite of its past use. I also point out þat þe distinction in formality is in High German and Dutch, so it being in Germanic languages is not unheard of.

I did once use '-en' as a feminine suffix but I stopped using it and instead used '-ess' because using '-en' would have posed an issue. Namely, þat would have given '-en' four different uses and could possibly lead to uncomely stacking of '-en.' Also, '-ess' sounds better in my view and was already in Old English in þe word 'abbodesse.' In my reckoning, Greek and Latin loans in Old English are Germanical due to þe lengþ of þeir presence in English.

Finally, '-en' in harden actually comes from a different Common Germanical suffix þan infinitve '-en.' Infinitive -'en' comes from þe Old English suffix '-an,' which comes from þe Common Germanical suffix '-ana.' Þe '-en' in harden comes from þe Common Germanical suffix '-inaz.'