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Proto-Idavic nouns were inflected for 3 numbers (singular, dual, plural) and 4 cases (nominative, accusative, dative, genitive). | Proto-Idavic nouns were inflected for 3 numbers (singular, dual, plural) and 4 cases (nominative, accusative, dative, genitive). | ||
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Nouns declined for | Nouns declined for four cases (nominative, accusative, dative, genitive) and three numbers (singular, dual, plural). | ||
Idavic nouns could have plurals marked with -ā, -ī, and sometimes with ablaut and/or reduplication. Nouns pluralized with a suffix are ''weak nouns'' and nouns pluralized with stem changes are ''strong nouns''. There were broken plurals marked by lengthening the stem vowel; these often developed into lexicalized singular nouns in Shalaian. | Idavic nouns could have plurals marked with -ā, -ī, and sometimes with ablaut and/or reduplication. Nouns pluralized with a suffix are ''weak nouns'' and nouns pluralized with stem changes are ''strong nouns''. There were broken plurals marked by lengthening the stem vowel; these often developed into lexicalized singular nouns in Shalaian. | ||