The -jō Declension
Nouns ending in -jō that have a short stem (see discussion above) behave identically to normal -ō stems, e.g. brakja "strife", sibja "relationship", sunja "truth". However, long-stemmed nouns in -jō have a different nominative singular ending in -i:
| Case | bandi, bandjōs band f. |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Nominative | bandi | –i | bandjōs | –jōs |
| Accusative | bandja | –ja | bandjōs | –jōs |
| Genitive | bandjōs | –jōs | bandjō | –jō |
| Dative | bandjái | –jái | bandjōm | –jōm |
Note that in this particular case the "long-stem" declension includes nouns with a long vowel or diphthong and no following consonant. In addition, these nouns have a different stem in the nominative singular from all other cases:
- mawi (genitive máujōs) "maiden"
- þiwi (genitive þiujōs) "maidservant"
Read more about this topic: Gothic Declension, Strong Declensions
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