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 ==Morphology==
 Windermere morphology predominantly uses prefixes, infixes, and reduplication.
-===Old Windermere===
-====Sandhi====
-Old Windermere had a complex sandhi system (somewhere between Biblical Hebrew and Sanskrit) which was no longer productive in Classical Windermere.
-*th + fric -> fric + t
-**ths -> st, as in ''sehf'' (go) -> *''thsehf'' -> ''stehf'' (to drive) (Modern ''binsteaf'' (energy), ''sămteaf'' (to energize))
-**thf -> ft, e.g. ''tăfi'' (laugh) -> ''*tithfi'' -> ''tifti'' (mock) (Classical and Modern Wdm. ''tăfi'', ''tifti'')
-Grassmann's law was productive in Old Windermere. When there were two spirant consonants before a stressed vowel in a word, the first was despirantized. e.g. *chăfol > căfol
-====Some prefixes====
-Old Windermere had the following prefixes:
-*''th-'' (causative; denominal verbs)
-*''p-'' (agentive; triggers voicing of voiceless stops ''p t c'' to ''b d g'')
-**''da'' (know) -> ''păda'' (master; ''pda'' in Modern Windermere)
-**''tüth'' (to grasp) -> ''pădüth'' (meaning, intention)
-*''ha-'' (passive)
-Old Windermere also used breathy voice ablaut to denote tools: ''snar'' (capture) -> ''snahr'' (trap, snare) which survives in Modern Windermere as ''snär''.
 ===Nouns===
 ''im-'' is used as the plural prefix.