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        <title type="main">Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *aljaz</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_aljaz</idno>
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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>
            </author>
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              <publisher>Brill</publisher>
              <date>2010</date>
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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>
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              <date>2014</date>
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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>
            </author>
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              <publisher>Brill</publisher>
              <date>2013</date>
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            <title level="m">Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 8)</title>
            <author>
              <forename>Hrach</forename>
              <surname>Martirosyan</surname>
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            <imprint>
              <publisher>Brill</publisher>
              <date>2010</date>
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            <title level="m">Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 9)</title>
            <author>
              <forename>Ranko</forename>
              <surname>Matasović</surname>
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              <publisher>Brill</publisher>
              <date>2009a</date>
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            <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>
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              <pubPlace>Oxford</pubPlace>
              <publisher>Oxford University Press</publisher>
              <date>2017</date>
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            <title level="m">Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 7)</title>
            <author>
              <forename>Michiel</forename>
              <surname>de Vaan</surname>
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              <publisher>Brill</publisher>
              <date>2008</date>
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        <item xml:id="cog_ine-x-proto_h2elyos" xml:lang="ine-x-proto" type="etymon">
          <orth>*h₂élyos</orth>
          <def>other, another</def>
        </item>
        <item xml:id="cog_xcl_ayl" xml:lang="xcl" type="cognate">
          <orth>այլ</orth>
          <form type="translit">
            <orth>ayl</orth>
          </form>
          <def>other</def>
        </item>
        <item xml:id="cog_grc_allos" xml:lang="grc" type="cognate">
          <orth>ἄλλος</orth>
          <form type="translit">
            <orth>állos</orth>
          </form>
          <def>other, another</def>
        </item>
        <item xml:id="cog_lat_alius" xml:lang="lat" type="cognate">
          <orth>alius</orth>
          <def>other, another</def>
        </item>
        <item xml:id="cog_sga_aile" xml:lang="sga" type="cognate">
          <orth>aile</orth>
          <def>another, other</def>
        </item>
        <item xml:id="cog_ine-x-proto_alyos" xml:lang="ine-x-proto" type="etymon">
          <orth>*ályos</orth>
          <def>other, another</def>
        </item>
        <item xml:id="cog_ine-x-proto_al_i" xml:lang="ine-x-proto" type="etymon">
          <orth>*al-i</orth>
          <def>elsewhere</def>
        </item>
        <item xml:id="cog_ine-x-proto_al" xml:lang="ine-x-proto" type="etymon">
          <orth>*al</orth>
          <def>elsewhere</def>
        </item>
        <item xml:id="cog_txb_alyek" xml:lang="txb" type="cognate">
          <orth>alyek</orth>
          <def>other, another</def>
        </item>
        <item xml:id="cog_txb_allek" xml:lang="txb" type="cognate">
          <orth>allek</orth>
          <def>other, another</def>
        </item>
        <item xml:id="cog_xto_alak" xml:lang="xto" type="cognate">
          <orth>ālak</orth>
          <def>other</def>
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        <entry xml:id="pgmc_aljaz" type="determiner" corresp="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/aljaz">
          <form type="lemma">
            <orth>aljaz</orth>
            <pron notation="ipa">ˈɑl.jɑz</pron>
            <form type="runic">
              <orth>ᚨᛚᛃᚨᛉ</orth>
            </form>
          </form>
          <gramGrp>
            <pos>determiner</pos>
            <gram type="stem">ja-stem</gram>
          </gramGrp>
          <sense n="1">
            <def>other, another, else</def>
          </sense>
          <etym>
            <seg type="p">From Proto-Indo-European <mentioned xml:lang="" target="#cog_ine-x-proto_alyos"><ref target="#cog_ine-x-proto_alyos">*ályos</ref></mentioned>, with stem <mentioned xml:lang="gmw-x-proto">*alio-</mentioned>. Dunkel <bibl corresp="#dunkel2014" n="21–27" ana="#omit-author">2014: 21–27</bibl> analyzes *<mentioned xml:lang="gmw-x-proto">alio-</mentioned> without an initial laryngeal as a thematic derivative in <mentioned xml:lang="gmw-x-proto">-o-</mentioned> of locatival <mentioned xml:lang="" target="#cog_ine-x-proto_al_i"><ref target="#cog_ine-x-proto_al_i">*al-i</ref></mentioned>, from the local particle <mentioned xml:lang="" target="#cog_ine-x-proto_al"><ref target="#cog_ine-x-proto_al">*al</ref></mentioned>, originally approximately ‘(one) from elsewhere’; Ringe <bibl corresp="#ringe2017" n="89, 143, 155" ana="#omit-author">2017: 89, 143, 155</bibl> likewise derives <mentioned xml:lang="gmw-x-proto">*aljaz</mentioned> directly from <mentioned xml:lang="" target="#cog_ine-x-proto_alyos"><ref target="#cog_ine-x-proto_alyos">*ályos</ref></mentioned>. Traditionally reconstructed as <mentioned xml:lang="ine-x-proto" target="#cog_ine-x-proto_h2elyos"><ref target="#cog_ine-x-proto_h2elyos">*h₂élyos</ref></mentioned> <bibl corresp="#beekes2010" n="73">Beekes 2010: 73</bibl> <bibl corresp="#de_vaan2008" n="34">de Vaan 2008: 34</bibl> <bibl corresp="#kroonen2013" n="23">Kroonen 2013: 23</bibl>, though this would regularly yield Old Armenian <mentioned xml:lang="gmw-x-proto">**hayl</mentioned> rather than attested <mentioned xml:lang="" target="#cog_xcl_ayl"><ref target="#cog_xcl_ayl">այլ</ref></mentioned> <bibl corresp="#martirosyan2010" n="57–58">Martirosyan 2010: 57–58</bibl>. Cognate with Ancient Greek <mentioned xml:lang="" target="#cog_grc_allos"><ref target="#cog_grc_allos">ἄλλος</ref></mentioned>, Latin <mentioned xml:lang="" target="#cog_lat_alius"><ref target="#cog_lat_alius">alius</ref></mentioned>, Old Irish <mentioned xml:lang="" target="#cog_sga_aile"><ref target="#cog_sga_aile">aile</ref></mentioned>, Tocharian B <mentioned xml:lang="" target="#cog_txb_alyek"><ref target="#cog_txb_alyek">alyek</ref></mentioned>, <mentioned xml:lang="" target="#cog_txb_allek"><ref target="#cog_txb_allek">allek</ref></mentioned>, and Tocharian A <mentioned xml:lang="" target="#cog_xto_alak"><ref target="#cog_xto_alak">ālak</ref></mentioned> <bibl corresp="#beekes2010" n="73">Beekes 2010: 73</bibl> <bibl corresp="#de_vaan2008" n="34">de Vaan 2008: 34</bibl> <bibl corresp="#matasovic2009" n="31">Matasović 2009a: 31</bibl>.</seg>
          </etym>
          <note type="Declension">
            <head>Declension</head>
            <p>This determiner has a Strong declension only.</p>
          </note>
          <re type="paradigm">
            <form type="inflected" ana="#strong #nom #sg #masc">
              <orth>aljaz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#strong #nom #sg #fem">
              <orth>aljō</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#strong #nom #sg #neut">
              <orth>alją, -at(ō)</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#strong #nom #pl #masc">
              <orth>aljai</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#strong #nom #pl #fem">
              <orth>aljôz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#strong #nom #pl #neut">
              <orth>aljō</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#strong #acc #sg #masc">
              <orth>aljanǭ</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#strong #acc #sg #fem">
              <orth>aljǭ</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#strong #acc #sg #neut">
              <orth>alją, -at(ō)</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#strong #acc #pl #masc">
              <orth>aljanz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#strong #acc #pl #fem">
              <orth>aljōz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#strong #acc #pl #neut">
              <orth>aljō</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#strong #gen #sg #masc">
              <orth>aljas, alis</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#strong #gen #sg #fem">
              <orth>aljaizōz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#strong #gen #sg #neut">
              <orth>aljas, alis</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#strong #gen #pl #masc">
              <orth>aljaizǫ̂</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#strong #gen #pl #fem">
              <orth>aljaizǫ̂</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#strong #gen #pl #neut">
              <orth>aljaizǫ̂</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#strong #dat #sg #masc">
              <orth>aljammai</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#strong #dat #sg #fem">
              <orth>aljaizōi</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#strong #dat #sg #neut">
              <orth>aljammai</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#strong #dat #pl #masc">
              <orth>aljaimaz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#strong #dat #pl #fem">
              <orth>aljaimaz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#strong #dat #pl #neut">
              <orth>aljaimaz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#strong #instr #sg #masc">
              <orth>aljanō</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#strong #instr #sg #fem">
              <orth>aljaizō</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#strong #instr #sg #neut">
              <orth>aljanō</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#strong #instr #pl #masc">
              <orth>aljaimiz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#strong #instr #pl #fem">
              <orth>aljaimiz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#strong #instr #pl #neut">
              <orth>aljaimiz</orth>
            </form>
          </re>
          <re type="descendants">
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                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*alljas</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Dutch</lang>
                    <orth>elles</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle Dutch</lang>
                      <orth>els</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*alljas</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old English</lang>
                    <orth>elles</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle English</lang>
                      <orth>else</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>English</lang>
                        <orth>else</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*alljas</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Frisian</lang>
                    <orth>elles, ellis</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old High German</lang>
                    <orth>elles, alles</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-Norse</lang>
                  <orth>*ᚨᛚᛃᚨᛉ (*aljaʀ), ᚨᛚᛃᚨ- (alja-)</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Proto-Norse</lang>
                    <orth>ᚨᛚᛃᚨᛗᚨᚱᚲᛁᛉ (aljamarkiʀ)</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-Norse</lang>
                  <orth>*ᚨᛚᛃᚨᛉ (*aljaʀ), ᚨᛚᛃᚨ- (alja-)</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                    <orth>ella, ellar</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Faroese</lang>
                      <orth>ella</orth>
                    </form>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Icelandic</lang>
                      <orth>ellar, ella</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-Norse</lang>
                  <orth>*ᚨᛚᛃᚨᛉ (*aljaʀ), ᚨᛚᛃᚨ- (alja-)</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                    <orth>ella, ellar</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Danish</lang>
                      <orth>eller</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Norwegian Bokmål</lang>
                        <orth>eller</orth>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Norwegian Bokmål</lang>
                          <orth>ellers</orth>
                        </form>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-Norse</lang>
                  <orth>*ᚨᛚᛃᚨᛉ (*aljaʀ), ᚨᛚᛃᚨ- (alja-)</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                    <orth>ella, ellar</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle Norwegian</lang>
                      <orth>ælle</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Norwegian Nynorsk</lang>
                        <orth>eller, elder, eld’u, eld’e, elle</orth>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Norwegian Nynorsk</lang>
                          <orth>elles</orth>
                        </form>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-Norse</lang>
                  <orth>*ᚨᛚᛃᚨᛉ (*aljaʀ), ᚨᛚᛃᚨ- (alja-)</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                    <orth>ella, ellar</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Old Swedish</lang>
                      <orth>ælla, ællar</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Swedish</lang>
                        <orth>eller, eljest</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Gothic</lang>
                  <orth>𐌰𐌻𐌾𐌹𐍃 (aljis), 𐌰𐌻𐌾𐌰 (alja)</orth>
                </form>
              </item>
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