This class consists of feminine abstract nouns and came about through the falling together of two declensions that were still different in Gothic: compare the Gothic -ei stems (a subclass of the weak declension, formed from adjectives, e.g. diupei "depth", genitive diupeins, from diups "deep") and -eins stems (a subclass of the i-declension, formed from Class I weak verbs, e.g. dáupeins "a dipping", genitive dáupeináis, from dáupjan "to dip"). Examples of other members of this class: scōnī "beauty", suoẓẓī "sweetness", snëllī "quickness", tiufī "depth", menigī, managī "multitude", irstantanī "resurrection", toufī "a dipping", welī "choice", leitī "a leading", riudī "mange". Strong consonantal declensions The monosyllabic consonant declension {| class="wikitable" ! rowspan="2" | ! colspan="4" | man; man man m.! colspan="4" | naht; naht night f.|- ! colspan="2" | Singular! colspan="2" | Plural! colspan="2" | Singular! colspan="2" | Plural|- ! Nominative, Accusative|| man || – || man || –|| naht || – || naht || –|- ! Genitive|| mannes || –es || manno || –o|| naht || – || nahto || –o|- ! Dative|| man, manne || –, –e || mannum (-om, -un, -on) || –um (–om, –un, –on)|| naht || – || nahtum (-un, -on) || –um (–un, –on)|} This class was already falling apart in the earliest texts: Only a very small number of nouns remain in this declension. The vast majority have passed over to the i-declension.eoman, ioman "someone" and neoman, nioman "no one" have a pronominal ending -an in the accusative singular, e.g. eomannan, neomannan. Masculine fuoẓ "foot" has passed over to the i-declension but retains the consonant endings –um (–un, –on) in the dative plural. The only trace of neuters of this class is the optional dative singular hūs "to a house" beside regular hūse.buoch "book" is declined mostly as a neuter a-stem in the singular but a feminine consonant stem in the plural.burg "borough, city" and brust "breast" are sometimes declined as feminine consonant stems but sometimes as feminine i-stems. The -r declension {| class="wikitable" ! rowspan="3" | ! colspan="8" | fater; faterā (-a) father m.! colspan="8" | muoter; muoter mother f.|- ! colspan="4" | Singular! colspan="4" | Plural! rowspan="2" colspan="2" | Singular! rowspan="2" colspan="2" | Plural|- ! colspan="2" | Early! colspan="2" | Late! colspan="2" | Early! colspan="2" | Late|- ! Nominative, Accusative|| fater || – || fater || – || faterā (-a) || –ā (–a) || faterā (-a) || –ā (–a)|| muoter || – ||