Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations and Symbols -- Chapter 1: Inheritance -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Applications -- 3. Syncretism -- 4. Method -- Chapter 2: Old High German -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Strong Nouns -- 2.1. Masculine and Neuter -- 2.1.1. a-stems -- 2.1.2. -iz-/-az- stems and u-stems -- 2.2. Feminine -- 2.2.1. ō-stems -- 2.2.2. jō-stems -- 2.2.3. i-stems -- 3. Weak Nouns -- 3.1. Masculine and Neuter -- 3.2. Feminine -- Chapter 3: Latin -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Group I -- 2.1. ā-stems -- 2.2. o-stems -- 3. Group II -- 3.1. ē-stems -- 3.2. Consonantal and i-stems (Third Declension) -- 3.3. u-stems -- Chapter 4: Early New High German -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Strong Nouns -- 2.1. Group I -- 2.2. Group II -- 2.3. Group III -- 3. Weak Nouns -- Chapter 5: Koine Greek -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Group I -- 2.1. α-stems -- 2.2. ο-stems -- 3. Third Declension -- 3.1. Consonantal Stems -- 3.2. Vocalic Stems -- 3.2.1. ι-stems -- 3.2.2. υ-stems -- 3.2.3. ευ-stems -- 3.2.4. σ-stems -- Chapter 6: Contrastive Morphology -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Old High German and Latin -- 3. Early New High German and Koine Greek -- 4. Old High German and Early New High German -- 5. Latin and Koine Greek -- 6. Summary -- Chapter 7: Conclusion -- Appendix -- 1. Paradigms -- Old High German -- Latin -- Early New High German -- Greek -- 2. Data -- References -- Index.