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        <title type="main">Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *astaz</title>
        <author>Scott K. Shay</author>
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        <publisher>Wardja Press</publisher>
        <date when="2026-10-01"/>
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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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              <publisher>Brill</publisher>
              <date>2010</date>
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          <monogr>
            <title level="m">Etymological Dictionary of the Hittite Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 5)</title>
            <author>
              <forename>Alwin</forename>
              <surname>Kloekhorst</surname>
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            <imprint>
              <publisher>Brill</publisher>
              <date>2008</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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              <publisher>Brill</publisher>
              <date>2010</date>
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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>
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            <imprint>
              <pubPlace>Oxford</pubPlace>
              <publisher>Oxford University Press</publisher>
              <date>2017</date>
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        <item xml:id="cog_grc_ozos" xml:lang="grc" type="cognate">
          <orth>ὄζος</orth>
          <form type="translit">
            <orth>ózos</orth>
          </form>
          <def>branch, twig</def>
        </item>
        <item xml:id="cog_ine-x-proto_h3osd_o_s" xml:lang="ine-x-proto" type="etymon">
          <orth>*h₃ósd-o-s</orth>
          <def>branch</def>
        </item>
        <item xml:id="cog_xcl_ost" xml:lang="xcl" type="cognate">
          <orth>ոստ</orth>
          <form type="translit">
            <orth>ost</orth>
          </form>
          <def>branch</def>
        </item>
        <item xml:id="cog_hit_ha_as_du_er_hasduer" xml:lang="hit" type="cognate">
          <orth>𒄩𒀸𒁺𒅕</orth>
          <form type="translit">
            <orth>ḫa-aš-du-er /ḫašduēr/</orth>
          </form>
          <def>twigs, brushwood</def>
        </item>
        <item xml:id="cog_ine-x-proto_h3esth1" xml:lang="ine-x-proto" type="etymon">
          <orth>*h₃esth₁-</orth>
          <def>bone</def>
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        <entry xml:id="pgmc_astaz" type="noun" corresp="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/astaz">
          <form type="lemma">
            <orth>astaz</orth>
            <pron notation="ipa">ˈɑs.tɑz</pron>
            <form type="runic">
              <orth>ᚨᛊᛏᚨᛉ</orth>
            </form>
          </form>
          <gramGrp>
            <pos>noun</pos>
            <gram type="gender">masculine</gram>
            <gram type="stem">a-stem</gram>
          </gramGrp>
          <sense n="1">
            <def>a branch or bough of a tree</def>
          </sense>
          <etym>
            <seg type="p">From Proto-Indo-European <mentioned xml:lang="" target="#cog_ine-x-proto_h3osd_o_s"><ref target="#cog_ine-x-proto_h3osd_o_s">*h₃ósd-o-s</ref></mentioned>, a thematic masculine noun <bibl corresp="#ringe2017" n="89">Ringe 2017: 89</bibl>. Cognate with Ancient Greek <mentioned xml:lang="" target="#cog_grc_ozos"><ref target="#cog_grc_ozos">ὄζος</ref></mentioned> and Old Armenian <mentioned xml:lang="" target="#cog_xcl_ost"><ref target="#cog_xcl_ost">ոստ</ref></mentioned>. Hittite <mentioned xml:lang="" target="#cog_hit_ha_as_du_er_hasduer"><ref target="#cog_hit_ha_as_du_er_hasduer">𒄩𒀸𒁺𒅕</ref></mentioned> may also be related, but its cognate status is uncertain <bibl corresp="#beekes2010" n="1050, s.v. ὄζος">Beekes 2010: 1050, s.v. ὄζος</bibl> <bibl corresp="#kloekhorst2008" n="326–27">Kloekhorst 2008: 326–27</bibl> <bibl corresp="#martirosyan2010" n="533–34, s.v. ost">Martirosyan 2010: 533–34, s.v. ost</bibl>. Beekes claims that the cross-language evidence points to an original preform <mentioned xml:lang="gmw-x-proto">*Hosdgᵂo-</mentioned>. Alternatively, Lubotsky speculatively analyzes the underlying form as an old compound containing <mentioned xml:lang="" target="#cog_ine-x-proto_h3esth1"><ref target="#cog_ine-x-proto_h3esth1">*h₃esth₁-</ref></mentioned>, perhaps <mentioned xml:lang="gmw-x-proto">*h₃esth₁-gʷer-</mentioned> ‘bony bulge’ <bibl corresp="#kloekhorst2008" n="327, citing Lubotsky, personal communication">Kloekhorst 2008: 327, citing Lubotsky, personal communication</bibl>. </seg>
          </etym>
          <re type="paradigm">
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #nom">
              <orth>astaz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #nom">
              <orth>astōz, astōs</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #acc">
              <orth>astą</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #acc">
              <orth>astanz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #gen">
              <orth>astas, astis</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #gen">
              <orth>astǫ̂</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #dat">
              <orth>astai</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #dat">
              <orth>astamaz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #instr">
              <orth>astō</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #instr">
              <orth>astamiz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #voc">
              <orth>ast</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #voc">
              <orth>astōz, astōs</orth>
            </form>
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                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*ast</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Dutch</lang>
                    <orth>*ast</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle Dutch</lang>
                      <orth>ast</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Dutch</lang>
                        <orth>ast</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*ast</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old High German</lang>
                    <orth>ast</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle High German</lang>
                      <orth>ast</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>German</lang>
                        <orth>Ast</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Luxembourgish</lang>
                        <orth>Aascht</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*ast</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Saxon</lang>
                    <orth>ast</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle Low German</lang>
                      <orth>ast</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Gothic</lang>
                  <orth>𐌰𐍃𐍄𐍃 (asts)</orth>
                </form>
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