Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *aldijǫ̂ barnōScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_aldijǫ_barnō
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Edda: Die Lieder des Codex Regius nebst verwandten DenkmälernGustavNeckelHeidelbergWinter1914Hêliand: Text and commentary. (Medieval European Studies 2.)James E.CatheyMorgantownWest Virginia University Press2002Klaeber's Beowulf, Fourth EditionFrederickKlaeberRobert E. BjorkR.D. FulkJohn D NilesTorontoUniversity of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division2008elda bearnchildren of men; mankindylda bearnchildren of men; mankindeldibarnchildren of men; mankindalda bǫrnchildren of men
noun phrase“children of men”; mankind; humankind; a poetic collective expression for human beings generallyFrom *aldijǫ̂ (genitive plural of *aldiz) + *barnō (nominative plural of *barną), literally “children of men”. The expression is continued by Old English elda bearn/ylda bearn, Old Saxon eldibarn, and Old Norse alda bǫrn, and is therefore securely reconstructible at least for Proto-Northwest Germanic; its occurrence in both North and West Germanic poetic diction makes inheritance from a common formula more economical than later interdialectal diffusion, although its existence in Proto-Germanic cannot be demonstrated Cathey 2002: 65Klaeber 2008: 11–12, xxiiiNeckel 1914: Vǫluspá 20.