This is why you ought to use Moose, or a Moose-work-alike such as Moo for pretty much any OO. You never need to write another constructor again!
use v5.14;
use strict;
use warnings;
package Word {
use Moo;
has stem => (is => 'ro');
has english => (is => 'ro');
}
package Noun {
use Moo;
extends 'Word';
has gender => (is => 'ro');
has nom_sg => (is => 'ro');
has gen_sg => (is => 'ro');
}
my $w = Noun->new(
stem => 'ai(=m-',
english => 'blood',
gender => 'n',
nom_sg => 'a',
gen_sg => 'atos',
);
say $w->english;
perl -E'sub Monkey::do{say$_,for@_,do{($monkey=[caller(0)]->[3])=~s{::}{ }and$monkey}}"Monkey say"->Monkey::do'