Idavic languages: Difference between revisions
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Proto-Shalaic nouns were marked for singular and dual and plural numbers. Plurals could be marked with -ōk, -ā, -ī, ablaut and/or reduplication. | Proto-Shalaic nouns were marked for singular and dual and plural numbers. Plurals could be marked with -ōk, -ā, -ī, ablaut and/or reduplication. | ||
====Weak and strong nouns==== | ====Weak and strong nouns==== | ||
Nouns are usually weak and take plurals marked with suffixes: 'star' is declined as ''ʕād'', ''li-ʕād'', ''ti-ʕād'', ..., with plural ''ʕādā''. | Nouns are usually weak and take plurals marked with suffixes: 'star' is declined as ''ʕād'', ''li-ʕād'', ''ti-ʕād'', ..., with plural ''ʕādā''. There are collective broken plurals that are marked by lengthening the stem vowel. | ||
Inalienably possessed nouns are pluralized with stem changes, like Arabic broken plurals: ʔəmmā́ "mother", | Inalienably possessed nouns are always pluralized with stem changes, like Arabic broken plurals: ʔəmmā́ "mother", ʔəmā́m "mothers". | ||
===Adjectives=== | ===Adjectives=== | ||