Class VII

Nouns in Class VII belong to the animate gender, which is to say they can function as masculine, feminine, or bestial nouns depending upon the mood of the speaker. This class derives from Class II inanimate nouns that, for some reason, later peoples have begun to ascribe some form of animacy. As such, the declension was shifted from i-stem to a-stem.

Paradigm

kalēta , cloud:

Case Sing. Dl. Pl.
nom. kalēta kigēlēta galēta
acc. kēlēta kugēlēta gēlēta
gen. kilēta kegēlēta gilēta
dat. kolēta kōgēlēta golēta