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- noun Plural form of
i-stem .
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Examples
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And you clearly don't know anything about Old Irish; the genitive of /all/ i-stems is refashioned after the u-stem nouns.
My sweet honey bee 2010
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Ethan Osten: "And you clearly don't know anything about Old Irish; the genitive of /all/ i-stems is refashioned after the u-stem nouns."
My sweet honey bee 2010
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Former a-stems and i-stems however still kept their vowel when suffixes were added.
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Former a-stems and i-stems however still kept their vowel when suffixes were added.
Archive 2007-09-01 2007
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Over a few generations, it would have become fashionable to treat these compounding *i-stems as independent stems, as an alternative to *o-stems without difference in meaning.
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[Footnote A: The genitive plural ending - ium is written to mark the i-stems.] [Footnote B: The genitive plural of mare is not in use.]
Latin for Beginners Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge 1900
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[Footnote A: The genitive plural ending «-ium» is written to mark the i-stems.] [Footnote B: The genitive plural of «mare» is not in use.] «241. »
Latin for Beginners Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge 1900
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