At the moment of writing this it is suspected that there doesn't appear to exist an official framework of inflection types for Moksha nominals.
From a practical standpoint in majority of cases at least the six forms of definite declension can be added, as in числительнай (čiśľiťeľnaj). There are plans to add a switch to disable ablative and prolative (the most problematic/irregular cases that are somewhat rarely used at the same time and cause the most trouble in attempts to confirm their forms) in the indefinite declension table which would allow adding decl. tables to many nominals with minimal information (knowing the plural and/or genitive would suffice in most cases), minus the abl./prol. fields.
NB: lemmas ending in ka, ke, ga, ge, ta, te, da, de lose their vowel and behave like consonant stems in their paradigm, see below.
Attested:
Attested:
Many forms have been found of:
Full paradigm of a soft n'-stem has been found, the following paragraph is not relevant anymore, this type is expected to be the same but with hard theme vowel o.
No full paradigm of this type has been found, it has several features that distinguish it from other types, the definite sg. nom. ending is -c' not -s', -n shifts to -t in plural, forms with possessor that have a suffix that starts with an s for other types, in n-stems have c instead – видьмонь касыкснень органцна (viďmoń kasikśńeń organcna, “organs of seed plants”).
орган (organ), its entry has only the definite declension, however, the dative organti has yet to be confirmed (other def forms are attested), it is very likely to be correct, however, as the (soft) n'-stem definite dative ломаньти (lomańťi, “to/for the/this person”) can be attested in many sources. As the soft n'-stem ломань (lomań, “person, human”) is a very widely used word, perhaps the hard n-stem paradigm can be extrapolated from its attested uses. (It also appears that there may not be native hard n-stem words in Moksha, however, they are likely to be commonly found as borrowings of scientific terminology, etc.)
A presentational/instructional .doc file found on mordva-tol'jatti.rf (the orig. url is in Cyrillic) contains full paradigm of sevon' (consistent with already found forms of organ above.)
Plural not given, for organ it's orgatt (n - t shift), as this word is a soft-cons. stem, the plural marker is to be expected to be soft – севотть, this is also the widely attested plural of loman' ("person") – lomatt'.
Attested:
Shared characteristics:
Differ from others by taking -ta instead of -da in ablative – kudta.
Attested:
All (or almost all) forms have been found of -ks derivations:
Characteristics:
It is not know what would the ablative of this type be, most likely it can be speculated to be -ta, as above, e.g., *parazitta, prolative, most likely, theme vowel (in this case o) + -va – *parazitova.
Zoologija
The above perhaps outdated spelling, "of the human" is spelled ломантть, should be ломанть, of the organ is spelled органтть in this book, again in more recent sources – органть, паразиць (paraźić) evidently should be паразитсь (paraźiťś, “the parasite”), "his/her" possessed forms have a prosthetic vowel in consonant stems, so, "his/her parasite" would be *parazitoc (so, a possessed form can be ruled out too.)
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No full paradigm has been given in literature but almost all forms of ведь (veď) have been attested, it's identical to hard d-stem kud, except for taking soft theme vowel e (as would be expected from a soft stem.)
Zoologija/Botanika
Лютикть нетьксканзон и сонь боконь таратканзон пева ащихть тю же панчфт.
In http://www.ut.ee/Ural/ariste/loputood/Ventchakova.pdf Ventchakova gives the full indefinite paradigm of мастор (mastor, “country (among other senses)”), unusual is the definite dative form масторти in indef. dat., however, at least one usage of the expected масторонди can be found: a 1930 book about building cowsheds (or something similar).
Characteristics:
This same type is to be expected in the other hard liquid – -l
Full paradigm of вирь (viŕ) is attested.
Characteristics:
This same type is to be expected in the other soft liquid – -l'.
In older books assimilation by voicedness in paradigm (e.g., before suffixes that start with s) is shown in orthography. Poljakov in {{R:mdf:R}} indicates that orthographically this is shown only in plural: пильге "leg" – пилькт "legs", пильгса "in leg (ines.)", пильгста "out of l. (ela.)", пильгс "in l. (ill.)".
Poljakov also notes that this elision/dropping of nom. theme vowel happens in all words ending in -га, -ге, -ка, -ке, -да, -де, -та, -те.
This explains why the plural of сяда (śada) is сятт (śatt) (Poljakov).
There is one usage example that suggests ablative in -ta (like in куд (kud)):
Theme vowel appears to be o in sjada:
Aside from the vowel ending in sg. nom. sjada appears to be identical to куд (kud).
Golenkov (page 70) notes that this rule operates only if there is another consonant before the g/k/d/t + vowel sequence, this explains why for example мода (moda) behaves like a regular vowel stem (per Raija Bartens), in this case сяда (śada) is an unusual case.
Full indef. sg. and def. sg. and pl. paradigm for сисем (śiśem, “seven”) is attested. It is pretty regular except for its plural.
These plural forms of other words, however, can be easily attested, plurals of antonym, synonym: антонипт (antońipt), синонипт (śinońipt) can be easily found.
The same source as soft n'-stems gives two forms for lazf ("gap, gorge") prolative is unusual (not found in any other type), this appears to be further confirmed by pos. endings with k instead of g – -ganza --> -kanza
Botanika
indef.
def.
pos.
Poljakov indicates the -v as shifting to f before plural marker
Theme vowel needs to be found out and abl. and prol. endings.