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==Morphology== | ==Morphology== | ||
===Sandhi=== | ===Sandhi=== | ||
Old Windermere had a complex sandhi system (somewhere between Biblical Hebrew and Sanskrit) which was no longer productive in Classical Windermere. | Old Windermere had a complex sandhi system (somewhere between Biblical Hebrew and Sanskrit) which was no longer productive in Classical Windermere; most often it affected plurals and verb forms. | ||
*th + fric -> fric + t | *th + fric -> fric + t | ||
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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 | 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 | ||
===Nouns=== | |||
Old Windermere had many irregular plurals due to sandhi. | |||
===Verbs=== | |||
Voice infixes, which became derivational in Classical Windermere, had a grammatical function. | |||
===Derivation=== | ===Derivation=== | ||
Old Windermere had the following prefixes: | Old Windermere had the following prefixes: | ||