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 *''lakof'' 'person' > ''lakof-lakof'' 'people'
 *''lbān'' 'water > ''lbān-lbān'' 'a lot of water'
-There was an honorific suffix ''-is''/''-s''. The semantic shift from honorific to feminine was an areal feature of Talman Lakovic languages.
 Nouns had no morphological case; genitive noun phrases were formed by concatenation.
 Naengic developed a new associative plural suffix ''-am'', from PLak ''päm'' 'that; those' (the ''-am'' in Modern Windermere plural pronouns ''łănam'', ''ănam'').
-====Case markers====
-Case markers came before the noun. There are known to be four case particles.
-* ''ŋa'' = direct case (the noun in focus); became complementizer in Naeng
-* ''Hit'' = indirect case
-* ''maw'' = genitive
-* ''xu'' = lative (became direct object in Archaic Naeng)
 ===Pronouns===