Declension class fi:solakka

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For the record, the historical background is that coda *j used to trigger gradation of geminate stops in some Finnish dialects (IIRC there's no evidence for gradation of singletons), but it's been mostly analogized away from existence; in particular since plural & past tense *-j has often contracted with the preceding vowel to -i-. (This has included even *oi-stem nouns such as Lua error in Module:parameters at line 95: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "fiu-fin-pro" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. > dial. kukoi for kukko.) However, -kka always takes the plural stem -kkoi-, so gradation to -koi- had pretty good odds for remaining.

Tropylium (talk)11:58, 19 November 2015