2: Nouns - Declensions and Cases
IN THIS LESSON
What is the first declension?
Meet the first of the five main declensions! The first declension is mainly a feminine declension, meaning that its words are given the feminine gender, even if they don’t have one in real life. Like the Latin first declension, the Oscan first declension is mainly based in a-stems, meaning that words typically have a at the end of their stem onto which endings are attached. This is one of the most extant declensions left to us by Oscan inscriptions. Below is the declension chart for the first declension. If you know Latin, you might see some similarities!
And here’s an example of first declension noun forms in each case! víú is Oscan for road (think of the Latin via) while vereias is youth (Latin iuventas), aasas is altar (Latin ara), eitiuvad is money (Latin pecunia), and kerssnaís is dinner (Latin cena)
