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{{PAGENAME}} nouns are notable for inheriting the ancient diptotic (two-case) system with nominative singular ''-''Ø < {{recon|-ъ}} < PSem {{recon|-u}} and genitive singular ''-o'' < PSem {{recon|-a}}. Diptotes are presumed to have been the oldest version of the Proto-Semitic case system. While Arabic and Akkadian developed the singular genitive {{recon|-i}} from the plural oblique {{recon|-ī}}, making their system triptotic, diptotes still survive in Arabic as broken plurals. | |||
The case system has been restructured along Slavic lines. The behavior of the accusative case and genitive case are identical to Slavic: accusative is identical to the genitive for animate masculine nouns and to the nominative otherwise, and objects of negative sentences take the genitive. The dative and instrumental/locative was formed by suffixing inflected forms of the prepositions {{recon|la}} 'to' and {{recon|bi}} 'with/by, in'. | |||
===Masculine nouns of type ''moloč''=== | ===Masculine nouns of type ''moloč''=== | ||