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        <title type="main">Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *ailą</title>
        <author>Scott K. Shay</author>
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        <publisher>Wardja Press</publisher>
        <date when="2026-10-01"/>
        <idno type="URL">https://protogermanic.org/pgmc_ailą</idno>
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          <analytic>
            <title level="a">Loanwords from unattested Nordic source forms in Saami</title>
            <author>
              <forename>Ante</forename>
              <surname>Aikio</surname>
            </author>
          </analytic>
          <monogr>
            <title level="j">Finnisch-Ugrische Forschungen</title>
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              <biblScope unit="volume">65</biblScope>
              <biblScope unit="page">5–24</biblScope>
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            <title level="m">Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 10/1)</title>
            <author>
              <forename>Robert</forename>
              <surname>Beekes</surname>
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            <title level="m">Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 11)</title>
            <author>
              <forename>Guus</forename>
              <surname>Kroonen</surname>
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              <publisher>Brill</publisher>
              <date>2013</date>
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            <title level="a">The development of the Proto-Indo-European instrumental suffix in Germanic</title>
            <author>
              <forename>Guus</forename>
              <surname>Kroonen</surname>
            </author>
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            <title level="j">Indogermanische Forschungen</title>
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              <biblScope unit="issue">1</biblScope>
              <biblScope unit="page">105–110</biblScope>
              <date>2017</date>
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            <title level="m">Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture</title>
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              <forename>James P.</forename>
              <surname>Mallory</surname>
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            <editor>
              <forename>Douglas Q.</forename>
              <surname>Adams</surname>
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              <publisher>Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers</publisher>
              <date>1997</date>
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            <title level="m">Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben</title>
            <author>
              <forename>Helmut</forename>
              <surname>Rix</surname>
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            <author>
              <forename>Martin</forename>
              <surname>Kümmel</surname>
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            <author>
              <forename>Thomas</forename>
              <surname>Zehnder</surname>
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            <author>
              <forename>Reiner</forename>
              <surname>Lipp</surname>
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            <author>
              <forename>Brigitte</forename>
              <surname>Schirmer</surname>
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              <pubPlace>Wiesbaden</pubPlace>
              <publisher>Reichert</publisher>
              <date>2001</date>
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        <item xml:id="cog_grc_aitho" xml:lang="grc" type="cognate">
          <orth>αἴθω</orth>
          <form type="translit">
            <orth>aíthō</orth>
          </form>
          <def>to ignite, kindle, light</def>
        </item>
        <item xml:id="cog_ine-x-proto_h2eydh" xml:lang="ine-x-proto" type="etymon">
          <orth>*h₂eydʰ-</orth>
          <def>to ignite; fire</def>
        </item>
        <item xml:id="cog_ine-x-proto_tlo_m" xml:lang="ine-x-proto" type="etymon">
          <orth>*-tlo-m</orth>
          <def type="function">forms nouns denoting a tool or instrument</def>
        </item>
        <item xml:id="cog_lat_aedis_aedes" xml:lang="lat" type="cognate">
          <orth>aedis/aedēs</orth>
          <def>hearth; temple</def>
        </item>
        <item xml:id="cog_san_edha" xml:lang="san" type="cognate">
          <orth>एध</orth>
          <form type="translit">
            <orth>édha</orth>
          </form>
          <def>fuel, firewood</def>
        </item>
        <item xml:id="cog_san_indhe" xml:lang="san" type="cognate">
          <orth>इन्धे</orth>
          <form type="translit">
            <orth>indhé</orth>
          </form>
          <def>to kindle</def>
        </item>
        <item xml:id="cog_sga_aed" xml:lang="sga" type="cognate">
          <orth>áed</orth>
          <def>fire</def>
        </item>
        <item xml:id="cog_grc_aithos" xml:lang="grc" type="cognate">
          <orth>αἶθος</orth>
          <form type="translit">
            <orth>aîthos</orth>
          </form>
          <def>heat, fire</def>
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        <entry xml:id="pgmc_aila" type="noun" corresp="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/ailą">
          <form type="lemma">
            <orth>ailą</orth>
            <pron notation="ipa">ˈɑi̯.lɑ̃</pron>
            <form type="runic">
              <orth>ᚨᛁᛚᚨ</orth>
            </form>
          </form>
          <gramGrp>
            <pos>noun</pos>
            <gram type="gender">neuter</gram>
            <gram type="stem">a-stem</gram>
          </gramGrp>
          <sense n="1">
            <def>fire; a blaze or fire as a substance</def>
          </sense>
          <etym>
            <seg type="p">From pre-Germanic <mentioned xml:lang="gmw-x-proto">*aidlą</mentioned>, from Proto-Indo-European <mentioned xml:lang="gmw-x-proto">*h₂oydʰ-tló-m</mentioned>, an o-grade instrument/result noun from Proto-Indo-European root <mentioned xml:lang="" target="#cog_ine-x-proto_h2eydh"><ref target="#cog_ine-x-proto_h2eydh">*h₂eydʰ-</ref></mentioned> + <mentioned xml:lang="" target="#cog_ine-x-proto_tlo_m"><ref target="#cog_ine-x-proto_tlo_m">*-tlo-m</ref></mentioned>, the inherited instrument-noun suffix <bibl corresp="#kroonen2013" n="11">Kroonen 2013: 11</bibl> <bibl corresp="#kroonen2017" n="106">Kroonen 2017: 106</bibl>. The development <mentioned xml:lang="gmw-x-proto">*aidlą</mentioned>&gt; <mentioned xml:lang="gmw-x-proto">*ailą</mentioned> involves dissimilatory loss of <mentioned xml:lang="gmw-x-proto">*d </mentioned>before <mentioned xml:lang="gmw-x-proto">*l</mentioned>; compare the closely related <mentioned xml:lang="gmw-x-proto" target="#pgmc_aidaz"><ref target="#pgmc_aidaz">*aidaz</ref></mentioned>, <mentioned xml:lang="gmw-x-proto" target="#pgmc_ailijana"><ref target="#pgmc_ailijana">*ailijaną</ref></mentioned>, and <mentioned xml:lang="gmw-x-proto" target="#pgmc_ailidaz"><ref target="#pgmc_ailidaz">*ailidaz</ref></mentioned>, the last derived through <mentioned xml:lang="gmw-x-proto" target="#pgmc_ailijana"><ref target="#pgmc_ailijana">*ailijaną</ref></mentioned> <bibl corresp="#aikio2020" n="10–11">Aikio 2020: 10–11</bibl>. Cognates are Vedic Sanskrit <mentioned xml:lang="san" target="#cog_san_indhe"><ref target="#cog_san_indhe">इन्धे</ref></mentioned> and <mentioned xml:lang="" target="#cog_san_edha"><ref target="#cog_san_edha">एध</ref></mentioned>, Ancient Greek <mentioned xml:lang="grc" target="#cog_grc_aitho"><ref target="#cog_grc_aitho">αἴθω</ref></mentioned> and <mentioned xml:lang="" target="#cog_grc_aithos"><ref target="#cog_grc_aithos">αἶθος</ref></mentioned>, Old Irish <mentioned xml:lang="sga" target="#cog_sga_aed"><ref target="#cog_sga_aed">áed</ref></mentioned>, and Latin <mentioned xml:lang="lat" target="#cog_lat_aedis_aedes"><ref target="#cog_lat_aedis_aedes">aedis/aedēs</ref></mentioned> <bibl corresp="#beekes2010" n="37">Beekes 2010: 37</bibl> <bibl corresp="#ref1997" n="87">Mallory &amp; Adams 1997: 87</bibl> <bibl corresp="#rix2001" n="259">Rix et al. 2001: 259</bibl>.</seg>
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            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #nom">
              <orth>ailą</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #nom">
              <orth>ailō</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #acc">
              <orth>ailą</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #acc">
              <orth>ailō</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #gen">
              <orth>ailas, ailis</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #gen">
              <orth>ailǫ̂</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #dat">
              <orth>ailai</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #dat">
              <orth>ailamaz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #instr">
              <orth>ailō</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #instr">
              <orth>ailamiz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #voc">
              <orth>ailą</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #voc">
              <orth>ailō</orth>
            </form>
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                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*ail</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old English</lang>
                    <orth>āl</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-Finnic</lang>
                  <orth>*ailas</orth>
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