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 2) the palatalization of the final stem consoimnt in the gen. pi. happens according to the following pattern; t becomes s, d — z, 1 — |, n — n, r — r, e.g. egle — egju, meitene — nieitenu, kaudze — kaudzu, kuce — kucu. (In Protobaltic they were tj, dj, Jj» nj, rj.) A j is added to other consonants, e.g., v — vj ; upe — upju, burve — burvju, etc. 3) the vocative may occur with or without the ending -e. Ill To this declension belong nouns in both nom. and gen. sg. ending with -s (the hist, i stems with an admixture of consonantal stems). With the exception of the plural noun laiidis (people), this declention is made /p of feminine nouns, llie following more commonly occuriiiig nouns belong to it: asins (blood), ass (axle), auss (ear), avs (ewe), balss (voice), birzs (birch copse), cilts (clan), debess (sky), dzelzs (iron), durvis (door), govs (cow), izkapts (scythe), klets (granary), kills (cow barn), maksts (sheath), nass (nostril), nakts (night), pils (castle), pirts (bath house), sals (salt), sivds (heart), smilts (sand), teUs (tent), uguns (fire), zivs (fish), zoss (goose), As examples will serve acs, nakts, uguns, zivs. Singular N. acs, nakts G. acs, nakts 1). acij. naktij A. aci, nakti I, ar aci, nakti L. aci, nakt! V. — N. uguns, zivs G. uguns, zivs D. ugunij, zivij A. uguni, zivi I. ar uguni, zivi L. uguni, zivi V. — zivs ! Plural acis, naktis acu. naksu aclm, naktim acis, naktis ar acim, naktim acis, naktis ugunis, zivis ugunu, zivju ugunim, zivim ugunis, zivis ar ugunim, zivIm ugunis, zivis — zivis ! 23