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Suppletive plurals:
Suppletive plurals:
*''croth'' 'person' > ''hingüs'' 'people'
*''croth'' 'person' > ''hingüs'' 'people'
Words with breathy voice are explained by:
*feminine -s for nouns
*an infix <H> for verbs


===Verbs===
===Verbs===
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**''tüth'' (to grasp) -> ''pidüth'' 'meaning, intention'
**''tüth'' (to grasp) -> ''pidüth'' 'meaning, intention'
*''ha-'' (passive)
*''ha-'' (passive)
 
====Breathy voice====
Classical Windermere also used breathy voice ablaut to denote tools: ''snar'' (capture) -> ''snàr'' (trap, snare) which survives in Modern Windermere as ''snär''.
Words with breathy voice are explained by older affixes:
*feminine *-s for nouns
*an infix *<H> for verbs


==Sample texts==
==Sample texts==
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