Idavic languages: Difference between revisions
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Proto-Idavic nouns were marked for singular and dual and plural numbers. | Proto-Idavic nouns were marked for singular and dual and plural numbers. | ||
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Nouns declined for two cases (nominative, genitive) and three numbers (singular, dual, plural). | |||
Idavic nouns could have plurals marked with -ā, -ī, 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 singular nouns in Shalaian. | Idavic nouns could have plurals marked with -ā, -ī, 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 singular nouns in Shalaian. | ||