-um in Old English

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          "text": "hund (“dog”) + -um → hundum (“dogs”)",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "sċip (“ship”) + -um → sċipum (“ships”)",
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  ],
  "word": "-um"
}

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        {
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          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "sċip (“ship”) + -um → sċipum (“ships”)",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
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        "Used to form the dative plural of essentially all nouns"
      ],
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        "morpheme"
      ]
    },
    {
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        "Used to form the strong and weak dative and instrumental plural of adjectives"
      ],
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      ]
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        "Used to form the strong dative singular of masculine and neuter adjectives"
      ],
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  "word": "-um"
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"-um" meaning in Old English

Suffix