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declensions. Most of them had word stems ending in a consonant (called athematic stems) and exhibited a complex pattern of accent shifts and/or vowel changes (ablaut) among the different cases.

Two declensions ended in a vowel (-o/-e) and are called thematic; they were more regular and became more common during the history of PIE and its older daughter languages.

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