Graedian nouns

The nouns in Greadian function much like any typical ancient Indo-European language. Case-wise they are closest to Sanskrit, having preserved all the eight cases. The words and endings themselves have forms in common with Greek, Lithuanian, Sanskrit and Old Church Slavonic. However, there are several unique rules, which make them more challenging to master.

One major difference is that nearly all cases have developed their unique endings instead of often sharing the same. This is the main reason why all eight cases remained. Also, the dual number is preserved and it developed rather distinct from most its closest relatives.

Basics
With nominals and particularly nouns it's important to note how complex they are:

Almost always nominals agree to gender, number and case. There are only a few exceptions which mostly concern numerals and agreement with the articles.
 * Three genders: Masculine, Feminine and Neuter
 * Three numbers: Singular, Dual and Plural
 * Eight cases: Nominative, Genitive, Dative, Accusative, Locative, Instrumental, Ablative and Vocative

Nouns have two main types of stems: thematic (ending to a vowel) and athematic (ending to a consonant) and likely have a few subtypes. This will be studied later.

Similarly, the endings can be split in two main groups: hard / vocalic (starting with a pure vowel like -as) and soft / iotated (starting with /j/ like -ias). These also can be broken into subtypes

The genders follow usually a very simple pattern which is somewhat like that in Lithuanian: However, this rather simple rule cannot be taken for granted. Just like in Greek and Sanskrit, there are many nouns which take the gender according to the meaning and some according to the easiest and most suitable inflection type. One perfect example of such can be found in German: Das Mädchen, girl, is neuter, not feminine.
 * Masculine nouns end to -s (-as -os -us -is -es; -ias -ios -ius -jis -ies etc.)
 * Feminine nouns end to -e, -a, -i also sometimes -as and -is
 * Neuter nouns end to -o, -u, -n

Also, one shouldn't take for granted that a Greadian word the same in Greek or Sanskrit would have the same gender. In fact it's rather common that they have different gender in Greadian. Thus one must be careful.