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        <title type="main">Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *ab</title>
        <author>Scott K. Shay</author>
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        <publisher>Wardja Press</publisher>
        <date when="2026-10-01"/>
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          <monogr>
            <title level="m">The Indo-European Syllable (Brill's Studies in Indo-European Languages &amp; Linguistics; 15)</title>
            <author>
              <forename>Andrew M.</forename>
              <surname>Byrd</surname>
            </author>
            <imprint>
              <pubPlace>Leiden</pubPlace>
              <publisher>Brill</publisher>
              <date>2015</date>
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          </monogr>
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          <monogr>
            <title level="m">Lexikon der indogermanischen Partikeln und Pronominalstämme</title>
            <author>
              <forename>George E.</forename>
              <surname>Dunkel</surname>
            </author>
            <imprint>
              <publisher>Universitätsverlag Winter</publisher>
              <biblScope unit="volume">2</biblScope>
              <date>2014</date>
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          </monogr>
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          <monogr>
            <title level="m">A Comparative Grammar of the Early Germanic Languages</title>
            <author>
              <forename>Robert D.</forename>
              <surname>Fulk</surname>
            </author>
            <imprint>
              <publisher>John Benjamins Publishing Company</publisher>
              <date>2018</date>
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          </monogr>
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          <monogr>
            <title level="m">From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English, 2nd edition)</title>
            <author>
              <forename>Don</forename>
              <surname>Ringe</surname>
            </author>
            <imprint>
              <pubPlace>Oxford</pubPlace>
              <publisher>Oxford University Press</publisher>
              <date>2017</date>
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        <item xml:id="cog_grc_apo" xml:lang="grc" type="cognate">
          <orth>ἀπό</orth>
          <form type="translit">
            <orth>apó</orth>
          </form>
          <def>from, away</def>
        </item>
        <item xml:id="cog_hit_a_ap_pa_appa" xml:lang="hit" type="cognate">
          <orth>𒀀𒀊𒉺</orth>
          <form type="translit">
            <orth>a-ap-pa /āppa/</orth>
          </form>
          <def>behind; afterwards</def>
        </item>
        <item xml:id="cog_ine-x-proto_apo" xml:lang="ine-x-proto" type="etymon">
          <orth>*apó</orth>
          <def>off, away</def>
        </item>
        <item xml:id="cog_ine-x-proto_h2epo" xml:lang="ine-x-proto" type="etymon">
          <orth>*h₂epó</orth>
          <def>off, away</def>
        </item>
        <item xml:id="cog_lat_ab" xml:lang="lat" type="cognate">
          <orth>ab</orth>
          <def>from, away from, out of</def>
        </item>
        <item xml:id="cog_san_apa" xml:lang="san" type="cognate">
          <orth>अप</orth>
          <form type="translit">
            <orth>ápa</orth>
          </form>
          <def>away, off</def>
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        <entry xml:id="pgmc_ab_1" type="adverb" corresp="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/ab">
          <form type="lemma">
            <orth>ab</orth>
            <pron notation="ipa">ˈɑβ</pron>
            <form type="runic">
              <orth>ᚨᛒ</orth>
            </form>
          </form>
          <gramGrp>
            <pos>adverb</pos>
          </gramGrp>
          <sense n="1">
            <def>away, off</def>
          </sense>
          <etym>
            <seg type="p">From Proto-Indo-European <mentioned xml:lang="" target="#cog_ine-x-proto_apo"><ref target="#cog_ine-x-proto_apo">*apó</ref></mentioned>, alternatively reconstructed as <mentioned xml:lang="" target="#cog_ine-x-proto_h2epo"><ref target="#cog_ine-x-proto_h2epo">*h₂epó</ref></mentioned>. The <mentioned xml:lang="gmw-x-proto">*b</mentioned> reflects Verner’s Law in the pre-Germanic development of <mentioned xml:lang="gmw-x-proto">*p</mentioned> in a weakly stressed/pretonic particle, though the accentual prehistory of this particle class is not entirely straightforward <bibl corresp="#fulk2018" n="102">Fulk 2018: 102</bibl> <bibl corresp="#ringe2017" n="125, 141">Ringe 2017: 125, 141</bibl>. Cognate with Sanskrit <mentioned xml:lang="san" target="#cog_san_apa"><ref target="#cog_san_apa">अप</ref></mentioned>, Ancient Greek <mentioned xml:lang="grc" target="#cog_grc_apo"><ref target="#cog_grc_apo">ἀπό</ref></mentioned>, Latin <mentioned xml:lang="lat" target="#cog_lat_ab"><ref target="#cog_lat_ab">ab</ref></mentioned>, and probably with Hittite <mentioned xml:lang="hit" target="#cog_hit_a_ap_pa_appa"><ref target="#cog_hit_a_ap_pa_appa">𒀀𒀊𒉺</ref></mentioned>; the Anatolian form without a reflex of the laryngeal is one reason to prefer <mentioned xml:lang="" target="#cog_ine-x-proto_apo"><ref target="#cog_ine-x-proto_apo">*apó</ref></mentioned> <bibl corresp="#byrd2015" n="8">Byrd 2015: 8</bibl> <bibl corresp="#dunkel2014" n="66–83">Dunkel 2014: 66–83</bibl>.</seg>
          </etym>
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                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*ab, *af</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Dutch</lang>
                    <orth>av, af</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle Dutch</lang>
                      <orth>av, af</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Limburgish</lang>
                        <orth>aaf, aof</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>West Flemish</lang>
                        <orth>of</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*ab, *af</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Dutch</lang>
                    <orth>av, af</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle Dutch</lang>
                      <orth>av, af</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Dutch</lang>
                        <orth>af</orth>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Afrikaans</lang>
                          <orth>af</orth>
                        </form>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*ab, *af</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old English</lang>
                    <orth>ob, æf, af, of</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle English</lang>
                      <orth>of, off</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>English</lang>
                        <orth>of, off</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Scots</lang>
                        <orth>of, off, af, aff</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*ab, *af</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Frisian</lang>
                    <orth>af, of</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Saterland Frisian</lang>
                      <orth>oaw, ou</orth>
                    </form>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>West Frisian</lang>
                      <orth>af, ôf</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*ab, *af</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old High German</lang>
                    <orth>ab, av, af</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle High German</lang>
                      <orth>ab, av, af</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Luxembourgish</lang>
                        <orth>of</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Yiddish</lang>
                        <orth>אָפּ (op)</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*ab, *af</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old High German</lang>
                    <orth>ab, av, af</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle High German</lang>
                      <orth>ab, av, af</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>German</lang>
                        <orth>ab</orth>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Norwegian Bokmål</lang>
                          <orth>ab</orth>
                        </form>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*ab, *af</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Saxon</lang>
                    <orth>af</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle Low German</lang>
                      <orth>af</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Low German</lang>
                        <orth>af, of</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Plautdietsch</lang>
                        <orth>auf</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-Norse</lang>
                  <orth>*ᚨᛒ (*ab)</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                    <orth>af</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Danish</lang>
                      <orth>af</orth>
                    </form>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Faroese</lang>
                      <orth>av</orth>
                    </form>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Icelandic</lang>
                      <orth>af</orth>
                    </form>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Norwegian Bokmål</lang>
                      <orth>av</orth>
                    </form>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Norwegian Nynorsk</lang>
                      <orth>av</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-Norse</lang>
                  <orth>*ᚨᛒ (*ab)</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                    <orth>af</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Old Swedish</lang>
                      <orth>af, āf, aff</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Swedish</lang>
                        <orth>av, af</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Gothic</lang>
                  <orth>𐌰𐍆 (af)</orth>
                </form>
              </item>
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