heteroclitic

heteroclitic
In linguistics, particularly Indo-European Studies, signifying a stem which alternates between more than one form when declined for grammatical case. Examples of heteroclitic noun stems in Proto-Indo-European include ,wod-r/n- "water" (nominoaccusative ,wódr; genitive ,udnés; locative ,udén) and ,yék-r/n- "liver" (nominoaccusative ,yékr, genitive ,iknés). In Proto-Indo-European, heteroclitic stems tend to be noun stems with grammatically inanimate gender.
See Also: heteroclite
2. noun
A heteroclitic noun.

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