Category:Old Irish masculine or feminine nt-stem nouns
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Old Irish masculine or feminine nt-stem nouns.
These nouns are masculine or feminine, typically with the following endings:
- in the nominative singular: the bare stem without final t, with aspiration/gemination of the following word if ending in a vowel;
- in the genitive singular: the bare stem with unpalatalized t and lowering of the stem vowel where possible;
- in the nominative plural: the bare stem with palatalized t.
The stem classes are named from the perspective of Proto-Celtic and may not still be visible in Old Irish inflections. In this case, sound changes leading up to Old Irish deleted the underlying n in all forms.