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Time to move on to the other noun declensions. We'll start with the u-stems. These may be either masculine or neuter, and do not have stem-accent and ending-accent subdeclensions; our model masculine (male model?) is kretus, kretus "step".

SingularDualPlural
Nominativekretuskretakretawas
Accusativekretunkretakretos
Locativekretuwikretuwoskretusu
Obliquekretuskretuwoskretubas


Our neuter is dāru, dārus "tree":

SingularDualPlural
Nominative/Accusativedārudāradārā


Here are the i-stems. These also don't have accent subclasses. Here's the feminine medis, medis, "mind".

SingularDualPlural
Nominativemedismedamedayas
Accusativemedinmedamedas
Locativemedimediyosmedisu
Obliquemedismediyosmedibas


...and a neuter, āsti, āstis "bone".

SingularDualPlural
Nominative/Accusativeāstiāstaāstā


Finally, we have the consonant stems, which are sort of a grab-bag declension where nothing else fits. Characteristic of the masculines/feminines is nes, netas, "night". The PIE thematic vowels here were a mix between e and o, with some i and ey imported from the i-stems. As far as stem mutation goes, these have all been treated as e or i (this causes palatalization of velars).

SingularDualPlural
Nominativenesnetanetas
Accusativenetanetanetas
Locativenetinetiyāsnetisu
Obliquenetasnetibānnetibas


And here's a neuter, nebas, nebasas "cloud":

SingularDualPlural
Nominative/Accusativenebasnebasanebasā


(You may be noticing a general theme with the neuters by now).

The consonant declension is the two-stem declension in Old Oxic, much like the grab-bag "third declension" of Latin and Greek, whether the stem must be derived from the genitive (or in this case, the oblique). It also includes the r-stems, such as hatar, hatras "father" and brātar, brātras "brother". R-stems have a nominative singular in -ar and a stem ending in -r elsewhere.

A final note on vocatives. Although Oxic had a vocative case in the singular, I have not shown it in the paradigms since it is fairly simple to form and would just add clutter. Here are the rules for vocatives:

- Masculine o-stems ending in -as have a vocative ending in -a.
- Masculine or feminine i-stems and u-stems ending in -is and -us have a vocative ending in -i or -u.
- R-stems replace the -ar ending of the nominative singular with -er
- Other nouns have no separate vocative.

And that's it: for non-neuter o-stems, i-stems and u-stems, just chop the final -u off, and for r-stems replace -ar with -er.

All in all, Oxic's noun system is not terribly painful. It has a number of sub-declensions, yes, but the accent-based ones are only found in the o-stems, and you can always decline a noun given its nominative, oblique and gender. I'mma call it a night.