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Nouns have 2 genders (masculine, feminine) and 11 cases (nominative, genitive, accusative, dative, locative, exlocative, instrumental, abessive, equative, anti-equative, and vocative). | Nouns have 2 genders (masculine, feminine) and 11 cases (nominative, genitive, accusative, dative, locative, exlocative, instrumental, abessive, equative, anti-equative, and vocative). | ||
Noun stems often get lenited. Lenition works as follows: | |||
* When the noun begins with a lenitable consonant (any consonant besides f, v, th, dh, ch and gh), the first consonant gets lenited. If the first consonant is z, λ or zj and there's a prefix before the lenited stem, an epenthetic -n- is inserted between the prefix and the stem. | |||
* When the noun begins with a vowel, an n- is inserted before the stem. | |||
* When the noun begins with a nonlenitable consonant (f, v, th, dh, ch or gh), an n- is inserted before the stem if there's a prefix before the stem that ends in a vowel. Otherwise, ne- is inserted before the stem. | |||
For example: | |||
bær 'leaf' → vær | |||
rasj 'spouse' → rasj | |||
zaweth 'ant' → aweth | |||
zawesj 'ant' (genitive) → awesz, '''ʙᴜᴛ''': | |||
λø + lenited form of zawesj 'like an ant' → λønawesj | |||
ensæ 'fruit' → nensæ | |||
farnathe 'speech' (genitive) → nefarnathe, '''ʙᴜᴛ''': | |||
me + lenited form of farnathe 'speaking' → menfarnathe | |||
ow + lenited form of farnathe 'not speaking' → ownefarnathe | |||
====Feminine nouns==== | ====Feminine nouns==== | ||