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* mana (inanimate) — “water”
* mana (inanimate) — “water”
* mana (animate) — “river”
* mana (animate) — “river”
* dama (inanimate) — “clay, soil”
* dama (animate) — “person, human”


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* vinda, person → vindar, people
* vinda, person → vindar, people
* hali, stranger → halir, strangers
* hali, stranger → halir, strangers
* man, river → manar, rivers  
* mana, river → manar, rivers


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If a noun ends in a vowel, the final vowel is deleted before the accusative, genitive, and locative suffixes. This does not apply to the allative.
If a noun ends in a consonant, the parenthesized vowel listed is added along with the ending. If the noun ends in a vowel that vowel remains unchanged, except in the locative case. The locative case ending will change the final vowel to -i-.  


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