AQDENÍZGIE 03 DECLENSION

DECLENSION IN AQDENÍZGIE

Much like other languages across the Meditarranean, Aqdenízgie has cases, that is, a system by which nouns change according to their function within the sentence. I have simplified this cases down to only two cases: Nominative and genitive. Nominative is the basic form of the word, the genitive is the form of the word when is link to other, defining it (see examples bellow). There are six types of declension, although we could say that these six types belong to two groups: to the first group belong all the words ending in -a, to the second group belong all the other words. The first group (all words ending in -a), has a common feature: a /t/ sound appearing.

Group A (declensions 1-3)

First declension

níhta (nominative singular) níhti (genitive singular)

nihtát (nominative plural) níhton (genitive plural)

Notice how in the nominative plural the stress moves from the first syllable to the second.

Second declension

séra (nom.sing.) seráti (gen.sing.)

serát (nom.plr.) seráton (gen.plr)

Third declension

gráma (nom.sing.) grámati (gen.sing.)

grámata (nom.sing.) grámaton (gen.plr.)

Notice that in the third declension the stress never moves, unlike the first and second declension

Group B (declensions 4-6)

Features: genetive in -i, plural with -s, stress always in the same syllable.

Fourth declension

cyn (nom.sing.) cýni (gen.sing.)

cýnes (nom.plr.) cýnon (gen.plr)

Fifth declension

cóxe (nom.sing.) cóxi (nom.plr.)

cóxes (nom.plr.) cóxon (gen.plr.)

Sixth declension

prátu (nom.sng.) práti (gen.sing.)

prátos (nom.plr.) práton (gen.plr.)