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The regular Nominative plural of i-stems is -és,[1][The Indo-European ending of the
nominative plural, -es (preserved in Greek consonant stems, as o, o-), contracts with a
stem-vowel and gives -és in
Latin i-declension (cf. the Greek plural o). This -és was extended to consonant stems in
Latin.] but -ís occasionally
found. The regular Accusative plural -ís is common but not exclusively used
in any word. An old form for both cases is -eis (diphthong).