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==Morphology== | ==Morphology== | ||
===Nouns=== | ===Nouns=== | ||
====Articles==== | |||
There were two articles like in Modern Windermere, but with gender distinctions: the definite article ''fin'' (m sg), ''fis'' (f sg), ''fi'' (pl), from the distal demonstrative ''fi'', and the specific article ''sen'' (m sg), ''ses'' (f sg), ''se'' (pl), from the proximal demonstrative ''se''. Indefinite nonspecific nouns do not take an article. | |||
====Plurals==== | ====Plurals==== | ||
Classical Windermere had many irregular plurals due to the effects of sandhi. | Classical Windermere had many irregular plurals due to the effects of sandhi. | ||
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====Gender==== | ====Gender==== | ||
Classical Windermere had grammatical gender, with masculine and feminine genders. | Classical Windermere had grammatical gender, with masculine and feminine genders. | ||
*For "basic" words, nouns with breathy voice were feminine: ''tge'' /tge/ 'voice' was masculine, while ''trămaay'' /trəmaʱj/ 'rain' was feminine. | *For "basic" words, nouns with breathy voice were generally feminine: ''tge'' /tge/ 'voice' was masculine, while ''trămaay'' /trəmaʱj/ 'rain' was feminine. | ||
*Exceptions were human nouns, for which the gender followed natural gender. | *Exceptions were human nouns, for which the gender followed natural gender. | ||
*Words with certain affixes | *Words with certain affixes | ||