Class

Morphological gender in Pre-Kaddesol plays out in the nominal class system. The prefixes of the old a-stem and i-stem declensions gradually took on consonant onsets, allowing the speaker to emphasize particular qualities in the nouns they modified. This produced six base classes of nouns that formalized on the four specific genders of Pre-Kaddesol .

But, the specific gender held by each noun is fluid and shifts based on changing perceptions, so it should not be treated as a given that a Class III noun is always of the bestial gender or that a Class V nouns always refers to a female animal. The exception is in classes VII and VIII which were inanimate nouns that came to refer to animate things at an early of enough stage to shift from the i-stem declension to the a-stem, but not early enough as to lose their plosive onsets.