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merger of PIE a-stems with o-stems. However the discovery of a group of inherited nouns with suffix *-eh₂ in Lycian and therefore Proto-Anatolian raised doubts about the existence of a feminine gender in PIE. The feminine gender typically marked with -a in non-Anatolian Indo-European languages may be connected to a derivational suffix *-h₂, attested for abstract nouns and collectives in Anatolian. The appurtenance suffix *-ih₂ is scarce in Anatolian but fully productive

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