the PIE reconstruction, Proto-Baltic only failed to retain the ablative and allative cases. Neuter gender was only retained by Old Prussian while in Latvian and Lithuanian it ceased to exist. That said, other neuter forms of inflected words such as adjectives, participles, pronouns and numerals remained in Lithuanian. *ā-stem and *ē-stem nouns were feminine, *o-stem nouns basically were masculine and neuter, *s-stem nouns were neuter while other noun stems could refer to all three genders. Unlike feminine and masculine nouns, neuter ones always had the same form for the nominative, accusative, and vocative cases. This form distinguished neuter nouns from masculine and feminine ones belonging to the same stem. Masculine and feminine nouns of the same stem had identical endings, and the grammatical gender was indicated by gender-changing words (pronouns, adjectives, participles, etc.) used with nouns: *labas anglis 'a good coal' (masculine), *labā au̯is 'a good sheep' (feminine), *laban mari 'a good sea' (neuter). Because of the disappearance of the semivowel *i̯ between a consonant and a front vowel, neuter *i-stem words had changes *mari̯ī > *marī 'two seas', *aru̯i̯ī > *aru̯ī 'two suitable ones' in dual. *o-stem nouns *deiṷas 'God', *butan / *buta 'house' *ā-stem nouns *rankā 'hand' *ē-stem nouns *žemē 'earth' *i-stem nouns *anglis 'coal, charcoal', *au̯is 'sheep', *mari 'sea' *u-stem nouns *sūnus 'son', *girnus 'millstone', *medu 'honey' *r-stem nouns *brātē 'brother', *duktē 'daughter' *n-stem nouns *akmō 'stone', *sēmen 'seed' *l-stem nouns *ābō(l) 'apple-tree' *s-stem nouns *nebas 'cloud' Root nouns *ṷaišpats 'lord', *šēr 'heart' {| class="wikitable" ! rowspan="2" |Case ! colspan="2" |Singular ! colspan="2" |Dual ! colspan="2" |Plural |- !Masculine !Neuter !Masculine !Neuter !Masculine !Neuter |- !Nominative |*ṷaišpats |*šēr |*ṷaišpate |*šerdī |*ṷaišpates |*šerdā |- !Genitive |*ṷaišpates |*širdes |*ṷaišpataus |*širdaus |*ṷaišpatōn |*širdōn |- !Dative |*ṷaišpatei |*širdei |*ṷaišpatmā |*širdmā |*ṷaišpatmas |*širdmas |- !Accusative |*ṷaišpatin |*šēr |*ṷaišpate |*šerdī |*ṷaišpatins |*šerdā |- !Instrumental |*ṷaišpatmi |*širdmi |*ṷaišpatmā |*širdmā |*ṷaišpatmīs |*širdmīs''' |- !Locative |*ṷaišpati|*širdi|*ṷaišpataus|*širdaus|*ṷaišpatsu|*širdsu|- !Vocative |*ṷaišpat!|*šēr!|*ṷaišpate!|*šerdī!|*ṷaišpates!|*šerdā!|} Adjectives Unlike the noun, the adjective used to be alternated using a gender (masculine, feminine, and neuter), which was then adapted to the corresponding gender of the noun. Adjectives had three degrees: positive (no suffix: masculine *labas, neuter *laban, feminine *labā 'good'), comparative (suffix *-es-: masculine *labesis, neuter *labesi, feminine *labesē 'better') and superlative (suffix *-im-: masculine *labimas, neuter *labiman, feminine *labimā 'the best'). They had singular, dual and plural numbers as they were applied to adjectives for combining them with nouns. The vocative case usually concurred with