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This is the documentation for [[Module:Gaillean]], the noun-declension module for [[Gaillean language|Gaillean]] (<code>YAQ-GA</code>) on the Yezur wiki. It is not called directly: [[Template:YAQ-GA-decl]] is a bare <code><nowiki>{{#invoke:Gaillean|decl}}</nowiki></code> and the module reads the template's own parameters from the parent frame, so a Dictionary entry writes <code><nowiki>{{YAQ-GA-decl|class=F}}</nowiki></code> under its declension heading. The module returns a wikitable of five cases — nominative, genitive, dative, accusative and vocative — in columns headed SG and PL.

Forms are built by concatenation from the citation form. The module does not call [[Module:Auphen]]; the Gaillean sound data at [[Module:Auphen/YAQ-GA]] serves the entry's pronunciation line instead.

== Parameters ==

{| class="wikitable"
! Parameter !! Purpose
|-
| <code>word</code> (or <code>1</code>) || The citation form to decline. Defaults to the page name when omitted, which is how entries use it.
|-
| <code>class</code> (or <code>2</code>) || The noun class, in the letters recorded on the entry's <code><nowiki>{{head}}</nowiki></code> line. Required; an unrecognised value returns an error message in place of the table.
|-
| <code>stem</code> || The stem of an irregular noun, the form in ''-r'' its other forms are built on. Read only for classes <code>MX</code>, <code>FX</code> and <code>NX</code>, where it takes precedence over the module's own table of stems.
|-
| <code>nopl</code> || Any non-empty value suppresses the plural, whose cells are then filled with a dash. For nouns with a unique referent.
|}

== Regular classes ==

The classes below decline by rule, each tied to the ending of the citation form. The module removes that ending and adds the endings given here; a lemma that does not carry its class's ending returns an error rather than a table. Singular and plural are given in that order.

{| class="wikitable"
! Class !! Lemma in !! NOM !! GEN !! DAT !! ACC !! VOC
|-
| <code>F</code> || ''-a'' || ''-a'' / ''-ar'' || ''-an'' / ''-aori'' || ''-ae'' / ''-uz'' || ''-as'' / ''-ax'' || ''-a'' / ''-a''
|-
| <code>M1</code> || ''-e'' || ''-e'' / ''-o'' || ''-in'' / ''-ori'' || ''-i'' / ''-uz'' || ''-ez'' / ''-orz'' || bare stem / ''-or''
|-
| <code>M2</code> || ''-at'' || ''-at'' / ''-o'' || ''-ant'' / ''-ori'' || ''-i'' / ''-on'' || ''-ats'' / ''-ae'' || ''-a'' / ''-o''
|-
| <code>N1</code> || ''-uz'' || ''-uz'' / ''-ia'' || ''-uzn'' / ''-iari'' || ''-i'' / ''-ibhi'' || ''-uz'' / ''-ia'' || ''-u'' / ''-i''
|-
| <code>N2</code> || ''-u'' || ''-u'' / ''-ur'' || ''-un'' / ''-uri'' || ''-i'' / ''-uri'' || ''-u'' / ''-ur'' || ''-u'' / ''-ur''
|-
| <code>NP</code> || ''-o'' || ''-o'' || ''-on'' || ''-i'' || ''-o'' || ''-o''
|}

Class <code>NP</code> is a one-off: it follows <code>N2</code> with ''-o'' wherever that class has ''-u'', and has no plural at all, the plural cells being dashed without <code>nopl</code>. It is carried at present only by [[Dictionary:Thaemo|Thaemo]].

== Irregular classes ==

Classes <code>MX</code>, <code>FX</code> and <code>NX</code> do not decline from the citation form, and differ from one another only in the gender they record: the module declines all three alike. They decline from a stem in ''-r'', taken from <code>stem</code> or, failing that, from the module's own table of 44 stems keyed by lemma; where neither supplies one the module returns an error. No entry passes <code>stem</code> at present, so every irregular relies on the table. Several of its stems belong to transparent compounds and repeat the stem of the head noun, so ''velna-aevr'' takes ''velna-aetover'' beside ''aevr'' → ''aetover''.

The nominative singular is the citation form itself and the nominative plural the bare stem. The other singulars are built on a shortened stem — the stem less its final ''-r'' and the vowel before it — and take ''-un'', ''-i'', ''-as'' and ''-i'' for genitive, dative, accusative and vocative. The genitive, dative and accusative plurals are built on the stem less its final ''-r'' and take ''-tri'', ''-z'' and ''-ter''; the vocative plural takes ''-ia'' on the shortened stem. Thus ''aevr'', stem ''aetover'': gen. sg. ''aetovun'', dat. sg. ''aetovi'', acc. sg. ''aetovas'', voc. sg. ''aetovi''; nom. pl. ''aetover'', gen. pl. ''aetovetri'', dat. pl. ''aetovez'', acc. pl. ''aetoveter'', voc. pl. ''aetovia''.

<code>nopl</code> is honoured by the regular classes only; the irregular classes build their plural on a separate branch and ignore it. All three failure cases — an unknown class, a lemma without its class's ending, and an irregular noun with no stem on record — are returned as a <code>class="error"</code> span in place of the table.

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