Masculine and Feminine इ Stems (Short i)

अग्नि – m. fire and कीर्ति – f. glory (Whitney, pp. 119; Hart, pp. 22)

Only the different forms are listed for कीर्ति. These are the instrumental singular and the accusative plural. Hart says feminine nouns in इ are relatively rare, but कीर्ति and भूमि are both common in Buddhist Sanskrit.

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Basic ई stems (Long i)

Whitney (p. 125-126) calls these “monosyllabic declensions” and classifies them together with single syllable nouns ending in long vowels -ā and -ū, such as जा (progeny) and भू (earth). These three examples are all feminine but whether all such nouns are is not explicitly stated.

धी – f. thought (Whitney, p.125)

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Derivative ई stems

(Whitney, pp. 133-134, Hart, p. 31) Hart says that all nouns in -ई which are more than one syllable are feminine. Examples: देवी and नदी Whitney calls these “derivative” and classes them together with multi-syllabic nouns ending in -आ and -ऊ, such as सेना and वधू.

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