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| ====Nouns==== | | ====Nouns==== |
| =====Gender===== | | =====Gender===== |
| Nouns have two genders, animate and inanimate. Nouns of each gender take their respective verb endings and pronouns in Classical Wiobian; pronoun agreement is preserved to some extent into Modern Wiobian. | | Nouns have two genders, animate and inanimate. Nouns of each gender take their respective verb endings and pronouns in Classical Wiobian. |
| <poem>
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| Some Proto-Wiobic declensions
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| *stremja 'throng, crowd' (Wiobian Strimm, pl. Strimme)
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| Singular
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| NOM: *stremja
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| ACC: *stremjaz
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| GEN: *stremj
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| DAT: *stremjaç
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| PRED: *stremjaz
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| Plural
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| NOM: *stremjō
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| ACC: *stremjan
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| GEN: *stremjōh
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| DAT: *stremjanç
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| PRED: *stremjō
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| *katsi 'leaf' (Wiobian Käße, pl. Kaße)
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| Singular
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| NOM: *katsi
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| ACC: *katsiz
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| GEN: *katsiʔ
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| DAT: *katsiç
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| PRED: *katsjaz
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| Plural
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| NOM: *kats
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| ACC: *katsin
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| GEN: *katsēh
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| DAT: *katsinç
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| PRED: *kats
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| *hleʔk 'animal' (Wiobian Schleck, Schlöcke)
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| Singular:
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| NOM: *hleʔk
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| ACC: *hleʔkez
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| GEN: *hleʔk
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| DAT: *hleʔkeç
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| PRED: *hleʔkaz
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| Plural
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| NOM: *hleʔkū
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| ACC: *hleʔkūn
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| GEN: *hleʔkūh
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| DAT: *hleʔkūnç
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| PRED: *hleʔkū
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| </poem>
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| =====Number===== | | =====Number===== |