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* ''amamū'' "mother" — ''mā'' or ''māmu'' | * ''amamū'' "mother" — ''mā'' or ''māmu'' | ||
* ''atabū'' or ''batū'' "father" — ''bā'' or ''bābu'' | * ''atabū'' or ''batū'' "father" — ''bā'' or ''bābu'' | ||
====Irregular nouns==== | |||
A few Dundulanyä nouns are irregular (outside of the few vocatives in the section above). Most of them are suppletive in the plural, or have irregular stems: | |||
* As mentioned above, a few irregular nouns end in long vowels; the most common ones are ''amamū'' "mother", ''atabū'' and ''batū'' (both "father"). These behave mostly as ''-u'' stem nouns and have, due to regular saṃdhi, ''ūv-'' before vocalic endings, except for having an irregular direct, vocative and bound form plural in ''-ūvi'' (''amamūvi, atabūvi, batūvi''). | |||
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* ''huline'' "woman" has the suppletive plural ''hulūni'' (regularly declined). | |||
* ''svo'', the most common honorific, is most commonly used as an indeclinable adpositive title before the noun it refers to; however, it may used as a standalone noun, in which case it behaves as an ''-o'' stem noun except before vocalic endings, where it has the stem ''svom-'' instead of the expected *svav-; the irregular behaviour is due to it being a shortening of the original honorific ''svomardam'', already found in both full and shortened forms in Classical Dundulanyä. | |||
* ''irāḍe'' "animal (including humans)" is a consonant stem noun in the singular and dual, but declines as an ''-a'' stem noun in the plural, i.e. direct pl. ''irāḍai''. | |||
====Use of the plural==== | ====Use of the plural==== | ||