OIcel morphology

OIcel v-insertion

Some OIcel noun, adjective, and verb stems belong to morphological subclasses that undergo v-insertion, meaning a linking -v- precedes all inflectional endings beginning with i or a.¹ In many cases such words also exhibit a rounded vowel in the stem. The lack of a -v- before u may be viewed as the result of OIcel v-deletion.

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