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        <title type="main">Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *arô</title>
        <author>Scott K. Shay</author>
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        <publisher>Wardja Press</publisher>
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              <forename>Robert</forename>
              <surname>Beekes</surname>
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              <forename>Alwin</forename>
              <surname>Kloekhorst</surname>
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              <forename>Guus</forename>
              <surname>Kroonen</surname>
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              <forename>Hrach</forename>
              <surname>Martirosyan</surname>
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              <forename>Ranko</forename>
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            <title level="m">From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English, 2nd edition)</title>
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              <forename>Don</forename>
              <surname>Ringe</surname>
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              <surname>Kroonen</surname>
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              <surname>Guus Kroonen</surname>
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            <title level="m">A methodological introduction to sub-Indo-European Europe</title>
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        <item xml:id="cog_grc_ornis" xml:lang="grc" type="cognate">
          <orth>ὄρνῑς</orth>
          <form type="translit">
            <orth>órnīs</orth>
          </form>
          <def>bird, chicken</def>
        </item>
        <item xml:id="cog_hit_ha_a_ra_as_kharas" xml:lang="hit" type="cognate">
          <orth>𒄩𒀀𒊏𒀸</orth>
          <form type="translit">
            <orth>ḫa-a-ra-aš /⁠χáras⁠/</orth>
          </form>
          <def>eagle</def>
        </item>
        <item xml:id="cog_ine-x-proto_h3ero" xml:lang="ine-x-proto" type="etymon">
          <orth>*h₃érō</orth>
          <def>eagle</def>
        </item>
        <item xml:id="cog_lit_erelis" xml:lang="lit" type="cognate">
          <orth>erẽlis</orth>
          <def>eagle</def>
        </item>
        <item xml:id="cog_sla-x-proto_or_l" xml:lang="sla-x-proto" type="cognate">
          <orth>*orьlъ</orth>
          <def>eagle</def>
        </item>
        <item xml:id="cog_cel-x-proto_eriro" xml:lang="cel-x-proto" type="cognate">
          <orth>*eriro-</orth>
          <def>eagle</def>
        </item>
        <item xml:id="cog_xcl_ori" xml:lang="xcl" type="cognate">
          <orth>որի</orth>
          <form type="translit">
            <orth>ori</orth>
          </form>
          <def>crow, raven</def>
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        <entry xml:id="pgmc_aro" type="noun" corresp="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/arô">
          <form type="lemma">
            <orth>arô</orth>
            <pron notation="ipa">ˈɑ.rɔːː</pron>
            <form type="runic">
              <orth>ᚨᚱᛟ</orth>
            </form>
          </form>
          <gramGrp>
            <pos>noun</pos>
            <gram type="gender">masculine</gram>
            <gram type="stem">an-stem</gram>
          </gramGrp>
          <sense n="1">
            <def>eagle</def>
          </sense>
          <etym>
            <seg type="p">From the inherited Proto-Indo-European masculine <mentioned xml:lang="gmw-x-proto">n</mentioned>-stem nom. sg. <mentioned xml:lang="" target="#cog_ine-x-proto_h3ero"><ref target="#cog_ine-x-proto_h3ero">*h₃érō</ref></mentioned>, with oblique <mentioned xml:lang="gmw-x-proto">n</mentioned>-stem forms ultimately continuing an older mobile paradigm <mentioned xml:lang="gmw-x-proto">*h₃ér-n ~ *h₃r-én- ~ *h₃r-n-</mentioned>. PIE final <mentioned xml:lang="gmw-x-proto">*-ō</mentioned> regularly gave the trimoric vowel of Proto-Germanic <mentioned xml:lang="gmw-x-proto">*arô</mentioned>; compare Hittite <mentioned xml:lang="" target="#cog_hit_ha_a_ra_as_kharas"><ref target="#cog_hit_ha_a_ra_as_kharas">𒄩𒀀𒊏𒀸</ref></mentioned>, stem <mentioned xml:lang="gmw-x-proto">ḫāran-</mentioned> <bibl corresp="#kloekhorst2008" n="107–108, 301–303">Kloekhorst 2008: 107–108, 301–303</bibl> <bibl corresp="#kroonen2013" n="s.v. *aran- 1">Kroonen 2013: s.v. *aran- 1</bibl> <bibl corresp="#ringe2017" n="92">Ringe 2017: 92</bibl>. Cognate with Ancient Greek <mentioned xml:lang="" target="#cog_grc_ornis"><ref target="#cog_grc_ornis">ὄρνῑς</ref></mentioned>, probably from feminine <mentioned xml:lang="gmw-x-proto">*h₃r-n-iH-s</mentioned>, and related to suffixed Balto-Slavic formations such as Lithuanian <mentioned xml:lang="" target="#cog_lit_erelis"><ref target="#cog_lit_erelis">erẽlis</ref></mentioned> and Proto-Slavic <mentioned xml:lang="" target="#cog_sla-x-proto_or_l"><ref target="#cog_sla-x-proto_or_l">*orьlъ</ref></mentioned> <bibl corresp="#beekes2010" n="1106, s.v. ὄρνεον">Beekes 2010: 1106, s.v. ὄρνεον</bibl> <bibl corresp="#kroonen2024" n="317">Kroonen 2024: 317</bibl>. Proto-Celtic <mentioned xml:lang="" target="#cog_cel-x-proto_eriro"><ref target="#cog_cel-x-proto_eriro">*eriro-</ref></mentioned>, whence Welsh eryr, is traditionally compared but phonologically problematic; Old Armenian <mentioned xml:lang="" target="#cog_xcl_ori"><ref target="#cog_xcl_ori">որի</ref></mentioned> is debated <bibl corresp="#martirosyan2010" n="537">Martirosyan 2010: 537</bibl> <bibl corresp="#matasovic2009" n="117–18">Matasović 2009a: 117–18</bibl>.</seg>
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            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #nom">
              <orth>arô</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #nom">
              <orth>arniz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #acc">
              <orth>arnų</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #acc">
              <orth>arnunz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #gen">
              <orth>arniz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #gen">
              <orth>arnǫ̂</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #dat">
              <orth>arni</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #dat">
              <orth>arnumaz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #instr">
              <orth>arnē</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #instr">
              <orth>arnumiz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #voc">
              <orth>arô</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #voc">
              <orth>arniz</orth>
            </form>
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                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*arō</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Dutch</lang>
                    <orth>*aro</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle Dutch</lang>
                      <orth>āer</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Dutch</lang>
                        <orth>aar</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*arō</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old High German</lang>
                    <orth>aro</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle High German</lang>
                      <orth>are, ar</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>German</lang>
                        <orth>Aar</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*arō</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Saxon</lang>
                    <orth>aro</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Low German</lang>
                      <orth>Aar</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>ari</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Icelandic</lang>
                    <orth>ari</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Norwegian Nynorsk</lang>
                    <orth>are</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Gothic</lang>
                  <orth>𐌰𐍂𐌰 (ara)</orth>
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