Noun classes

Wistrish noun classes can be divided into three major groups: strong nouns, weak nouns and consonant stem nouns. Besides these 3 main noun groups there is a smaller (mostly closed) static consonant nouns.

Strong and weak nouns in Wistrish are classified by their specific thematic vowel*, a vowel that frequently appears in endings and in compound words. Consonant stems are generally classified by the consonant they end in.

* Yes, for someone who is familiar with IE linguistics "thematic vowel" in a germanic weak noun (and some strong noun classes too) is going to sound funny, but bear with me, as Wistrish thematic vowels are (mostly) unrelated and are their own thing.

Strong nouns

On their part can be divided into big a-stem, i-stem and u-stem groups:

Weak nouns

Divided into groups, mirroring the strong noun groups (the pattern that will become important in adjectives):

Consonant stems

Has numerous smaller classes of nouns that display ablauting, which can be grouped into two main groups:

Even when a neuter class and a common class shares a consonant (i.e. masculine/feminine z-stem and neuter z-stem), these classes are not related. Neuter counterparts of gendered human-term common consonant stem nouns use strong neuter i-stem declension instead.

Static consonant stems

Mainly small closed classes, which behave somewhat similarly to strong and consonant stems in their own respect. Static consonant stems do not undergo ablauting. These are: