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==Nouns== | ==Nouns== | ||
Nouns distinguish two numbers and are otherwise uninflected. A few ancient case forms survive in fixed expressions, all of them preceded by the preposition ''oss''. | |||
===Pluralisation=== | ===Pluralisation=== | ||
Most nouns form their plural by adding -s. If the noun ends in a short vowel, the plural suffix is a long -ss. | |||
*''vogg'' "bird" > ''voggs'' "birds" | |||
*''mann'' "man" > ''manns'' "men" | |||
*''kennī'' "dog" > ''kenniss'' "dogs" | |||
A few nouns feature an irregular vowel change in the plural. | |||
*''ze'' "sea" > ''zyess'' "seas" | |||
*''sten'' "stone" > ''styness'' "stones" | |||
The nouns which end in -s in the singular are all irregular. Three of them have a plural in -issē. | |||
*''haus'' "house" > ''hissē'' "houses" | |||
*''maus'' "mouse" > ''missē'' "mice" | |||
*''voss'' "fox" > ''vissē'' "foxes" | |||
The remaining native nouns ending in -s, as well as some thirty other irregular nouns, have plurals in -er. | |||
*''fiss'' "fish" > ''fisser'' "fish" | |||
*''bom'' "tree" > ''bomer'' "trees" | |||
Nouns which end in -er in the singular have identical singular and plural forms. | |||
*''jaggter'' "hunter" > ''jaggter'' "hunters" | |||
===Nominalising suffixes=== | ===Nominalising suffixes=== | ||