Class VI
Nouns of Class VI belong to the inanimate gender. These derive from the old i-stem
inanimate declension, whose prefix was the vowel. Unlike the similarly formed Class II,
in Class VI to prefix developed a dental onset in [t]
. The reason for this is not particularly
clear, though it may derive from a lost contraction.
Paradigm
tionawa , mountain:
Case | Sing. | Dl. | Pl. |
---|---|---|---|
nom. | tionawa | tideonawa | dionawa |
acc. | tuonawa | tudeonawa | duonawa |
gen. | teonawa | tedeonawa | deonawa |
dat. | tōonawa | tōdeonawa | dōonawa |