[Fictionary] Language question

[Ranjit Bhatnagar]

I can't sleep, and I figure someone here can answer this question: are
there any languages which have something like grammatical gender for nouns,
but with absolutely no association with biological gender?  Like instead of
masc fem and neut they have rock paper and scissors nouns?

(A group of rock object and paper objects is referred to with the p.pl.
determiner. If you have a bunch of paper and scissor things in a pile, you
use s.pl. terms to refer to the pile. And rocks and scissors together are
rocks. But what if you get all three kinds together in a single set? It
turns out that just never seems to happen.)
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