The general lines of diachronics of Western Lombard plural declension are drawn here (referring to Milanese orthography): Milanese (milanes, milanées, meneghin, meneghìn) is a variety of Western Lombard spoken in the city of Milan and in its province. ...

Feminine

The bulk of feminine words ends with desinence -a; plural feminine is adesinential. The last vowel founds its original length (in non-final syllable you can't ear the difference) that's often long when followed by a voiced consonant, short when followed by a voiceless consonant. When the stem ends with a difficult group of consonants you can see an addiction of a final -i or of a schwa between consonants (for example: in Milanese sing. scendra, plur. scendr>scender). So in adjectives, plural form and masculine form are often the same. Milanese (milanes, milanées, meneghin, meneghìn) is a variety of Western Lombard spoken in the city of Milan and in its province. ...

Masculine

The bulk of masculine words ends without desinences; plural masculine is adesinential. When the stem ends with a difficult group of consonants you can see, in singular and plural, an addiction of a schwa between consonants. When the addiction of schwa appears unnatural, they add a final -u, that in the plural is -i.

The masculin words ending in -in, and some ending in -ett, have plural in itt. The masculine words ending in -ll have plural in -j (derived from addiction of -i and fall of -ll-; you can see the same phaenomenon in the origin of determinate article: sing. ell>el, plur. elli>ej>i).

See also

• Western Lombard