Template:liv-noun/documentation

To generate markup for inflected forms (mīe, mēši, mēži, etc.) you can use. Universal inflection template for noun-like words (nouns, adjectives, numerals) in the Livonian language.
 * Go to any page (e.g., template's talk page) enter this template with all the params like you would in an entry but change  ,  ||Cardinal numeral}} , etc.
 * Hit preview (you do not have to save) – redlinks should be visible as headings and below them markup that should be the contents of that "form of" page to copy.
 * If a heading is empty it means it's an alternative form and the heading below it has the same inflectional type.
 * Two different cases (e.g., touvõ part. and touvõ ill.) – from the second copy just the line after the hash – #.
 * It is a little mangled (esp. where the alternative locatives are) but nothing one couldn't make out quickly.

Exceptions:
 * this template doesn't cover pronouns (at least not all of them) as a rule if the pl gen is different from pl nom you cannot use this template (this applies only to pronouns).
 * Compounds with both components declinable. For this use manual entry template:.

Cannot handle very short words where the entirety of stem shifts and plural is analogous to, e.g., singular genitive: ikš, īd, īd. Specify pl-nom-0 = 1

Currently gives a short -s, -st form for in and el however if the word will have -šõ or -štõ those will remain -s, -st. Specify in-stemend-s = 1 this disables the alternative short locatives and for the long ones what you provide in in= and el= would be passed.

Conversely it is possible to disable the long locatives completely with sl=1 (stands for "short locative") (LEL seems to have a preference for long locatives when other sources use the short ones but when LEL indicates only a short locative the long ones should be avoided as nonexistent.)

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 * first unnamed param – "lowest common denominator" sound that stays the same in all cases, with words like ikš - īd leave empty
 * 1v – first vowel (that's going to shift)
 * 2c – a consonant after a vowel that's going to shift (or if a non-shifting consonant is surrounded by components that shift also enter it and in the shifted value just give the same.)
 * 3s – any sound or sounds at the end that might disappear and reappear
 * 1vs – shifted value of 1v
 * 2cs – shifted value of 2c
 * 3ss – same
 * gen-vs – does the vowel shift in singular genitive? if yes =1
 * gen – any ending genitive might have, if empty - fallback value (in this case empty since gen tipically doesn't have an ending)
 * gen-3s-loss – if the word had any disappearing ending does it remain absent?
 * ill-alt-z – do you want an alternative ill ending with z, e.g., touvõ + touvõz?
 * in-stemend-s – does the stem end in s? (disables short locatives)
 * pl-ins-koks – is there an extra k in pl ins? (if there is in singular just give kõks to the ins= param.)

Irrelevant parameters can be deleted (see for example bäzmõr below.) However line breaks must be removed too.

For uncountable nouns specify sg=1, for pluralia tantum – pl=1.

A couple of types (containing many words, however) have an alternative sg part ending -t (see ežmi for example) – provide alt-part = t

It is recommended to provide type at the end, e.g., type=201 for ežmi which links to Appendix:Livonian declension

Example 1 tōvaz


No shifting – bäzmõr
A seemingly "regular" word but with the more rare -t partitive, elision of vowel in plural and nonstandard pl. partitive (and only short locatives.)



One of singular forms doubles as plural ikš, īd, īd
Explicitly specify pl-nom-0 = 1.

Empty template
