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By the way, regarding the stress-shifts in вода -- quite a few other common feminine nouns, such as рука (hand/arm), нога (foot/leg), and голова (head) follow a rather similar pattern of stress...

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The partitive that resembles the masculine dative (i.e., with -у/-ю) is extremely rare now. Historically, there were many dozens of masculine nouns that had this...