<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:lang="en" version="4.12.0">
  <teiHeader>
    <fileDesc>
      <titleStmt>
        <title type="main">Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *balgiz</title>
        <author>Scott K. Shay</author>
      </titleStmt>
      <publicationStmt>
        <publisher>Wardja Press</publisher>
        <date when="2026-10-01"/>
        <idno type="URL">https://protogermanic.org/pgmc_balgiz</idno>
      </publicationStmt>
      <sourceDesc>
        <p>Single-entry extract from the dictionary. Cross-references to other entries point to their identifiers in the full dictionary.</p>
      </sourceDesc>
    </fileDesc>
  </teiHeader>
  <text>
    <body>
      <list type="cognates">
        <item xml:id="cog_sga_bolg" xml:lang="sga" type="cognate">
          <orth>bolg</orth>
          <def>belly, stomach, bag, bellows</def>
        </item>
      </list>
      <div type="dictionary">
        <entry xml:id="pgmc_balgiz" type="noun" corresp="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/balgiz">
          <form type="lemma">
            <orth>balgiz</orth>
            <pron notation="ipa">ˈbɑl.ɣiz</pron>
            <form type="runic">
              <orth>ᛒᚨᛚᚷᛁᛉ</orth>
            </form>
          </form>
          <gramGrp>
            <pos>noun</pos>
            <gram type="gender">masculine</gram>
            <gram type="stem">i-stem</gram>
          </gramGrp>
          <sense n="1">
            <def>bag</def>
          </sense>
          <etym>
            <seg type="p">From Proto-Indo-European *bʰolǵʰ-i-s, from *bʰelǵʰ- (‘to swell’). Compare Persian بالش (bâleš, ‘pillow’) and Old Irish <mentioned xml:lang="sga" target="#cog_sga_bolg"><ref target="#cog_sga_bolg">bolg</ref></mentioned> (‘belly, stomach, bag, bellows’).</seg>
          </etym>
          <re type="paradigm">
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #nom">
              <orth>balgiz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #nom">
              <orth>balgīz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #acc">
              <orth>balgį</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #acc">
              <orth>balginz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #gen">
              <orth>balgīz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #gen">
              <orth>balgijǫ̂</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #dat">
              <orth>balgī</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #dat">
              <orth>balgimaz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #instr">
              <orth>balgī</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #instr">
              <orth>balgimiz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #voc">
              <orth>balgi</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #voc">
              <orth>balgīz</orth>
            </form>
          </re>
          <re type="descendants">
            <list>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*balgi</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Dutch</lang>
                    <orth>*balg</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle Dutch</lang>
                      <orth>balch</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Dutch</lang>
                        <orth>balg</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*balgi</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old English</lang>
                    <orth>bielġ, belġ, bæliġ, beliġ, bylg, byliġ, bælġ</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle English</lang>
                      <orth>bely, beli, baly, balyw, belgh, belwe, belu</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>English</lang>
                        <orth>belly, ballow, bellows</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Scots</lang>
                        <orth>belly, bally</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*balgi</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Frisian</lang>
                    <orth>balg</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Saterland Frisian</lang>
                      <orth>Balch</orth>
                    </form>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>West Frisian</lang>
                      <orth>bealch, balge</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*balgi</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old High German</lang>
                    <orth>balg</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle High German</lang>
                      <orth>balc</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>German</lang>
                        <orth>Balg</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*balgi</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Saxon</lang>
                    <orth>balg</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle Low German</lang>
                      <orth>balch</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Low German</lang>
                        <orth>Balg</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Plautdietsch</lang>
                        <orth>Baulch</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>belgr</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Faroese</lang>
                    <orth>bjølgur</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Gutnish</lang>
                    <orth>bälg, bölg</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Icelandic</lang>
                    <orth>belgur</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Norwegian Nynorsk</lang>
                    <orth>belg, bæg’e, balg</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Scots</lang>
                    <orth>belya, beli, bella, belja, belli</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>belgr</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Danish</lang>
                    <orth>bælg</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Norwegian Bokmål</lang>
                      <orth>belg</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>belgr</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Swedish</lang>
                    <orth>bælgher, ᛒᛅᛚᚵᚼᚽᚱ</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Swedish</lang>
                      <orth>bälg</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Gothic</lang>
                  <orth>𐌱𐌰𐌻𐌲𐍃 (balgs)</orth>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-Finnic</lang>
                  <orth>*palgëh, *palko</orth>
                </form>
              </item>
            </list>
          </re>
        </entry>
      </div>
    </body>
  </text>
</TEI>
