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 ==Morphology==
-===Sandhi===
-Old Windermere had a complex sandhi system (somewhere between Biblical Hebrew and Sanskrit) which was no longer productive in Classical Windermere; most notably it affected plurals and verb forms, making them less predictable.
-*fth, fch > -pt-, -pc-
-*th + fric -> fric + t
-**ths -> st, as in ''sehf'' 'go' -> *''thsehf'' -> ''stehf'' 'to drive' (Modern ''binsteaf'' 'energy', ''sămteaf'' 'to energize')
-**thf -> ft, e.g. ''tăfi'' 'laugh' -> ''*tithfi'' -> ''tifti'' 'to mock' (Classical and Modern Wdm. ''tăfi'', ''tifti'')
-**thch -> cht e.g. Proto-Windermere ''àrθχa'' > ''răchta'' 'to die'
-**thł, thș -> łt, șt
-*ch + fric
-*s + f, th, ch > sp, st, sc
-*rC, lC > Cr, Cl
-*ps pn png > sp fn fng
-*tp thp tsp kp chp > tw thw tsw cw chw; Proto-Windermere breathy vowel + tp tsp kp > dw tsw gw
-*tsc cts tsp pts sts ts > sc sc sp sp st st
-Grassmann's law was productive in Old Windermere: when there were two spirant consonants before a stressed vowel in a word, the first was despirantized. e.g. *chăfol > căfol 'to turn'.
 ===Nouns===
 Old Windermere had many irregular plurals due to the effects of sandhi.