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==Vowel-reducing paradigms== | ==Vowel-reducing paradigms== | ||
The largest class of vowel-reducing nouns have ''á'' or ''é'' between the first and second radicals that reduces to ''a'' (''i'' after a ''y'') when a suffix is added. | The largest class of vowel-reducing nouns have ''á'' or ''é'' between the first and second radicals that reduces to ''a''/''e'' (depending on the frontness of following vowel; ''i'' after a ''y'') when a suffix is added. | ||
=="Crawling-up" nouns== | =="Crawling-up" nouns== | ||
The "crawling-up" (Netagin: ''mittzúchábh'') nouns underlyingly end in a consonant cluster. In the singular oblique cases the stem is turned into a CaCC (if the bare form is CeCaC, CiCC for CéCaC and CoCC for CóCaC) form, and the dual and plural turn the stem into (CaCáC, CeCáC and CoCáC). | The "crawling-up" (Netagin: ''mittzúchábh'') nouns underlyingly end in a consonant cluster. In the singular oblique cases the stem is turned into a CaCC (if the bare form is CeCaC, CiCC for CéCaC and CoCC for CóCaC) form, and the dual and plural turn the stem into (CaCáC, CeCáC and CoCáC). | ||