Category:Old Irish -stem nouns

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  1. airle
  2. aille
  3. cairdine
  4. cairde
  5. censae
  6. trócaire
  7. áirge
  8. condalbae
  9. nige
  10. irnigde
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  1. gile
  2. náire
  3. fírinne
  4. meirle
  5. imdae
  6. fairrge
  7. doíre
  8. comairle
  9. goltraige
  10. gentraige

Old Irish -stem nouns.

These nouns are feminine, typically with the following endings:

The stem classes are named from the perspective of Proto-Celtic and may not still be visible in Old Irish inflections. These nouns derive from Proto-Celtic *-iā endings. Originally the endings were the same as that of the ā-stems, but later sound changes caused the two classes to diverge significantly.