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        <title type="main">Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *baswǭ</title>
        <author>Scott K. Shay</author>
      </titleStmt>
      <publicationStmt>
        <publisher>Wardja Press</publisher>
        <date when="2026-10-01"/>
        <idno type="URL">https://protogermanic.org/pgmc_baswǭ</idno>
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        <p>Single-entry extract from the dictionary. Cross-references to other entries point to their identifiers in the full dictionary.</p>
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        <entry xml:id="pgmc_baswo_x2" type="noun" corresp="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/baswǭ">
          <form type="lemma">
            <orth>baswǭ</orth>
            <pron notation="ipa">ˈbɑs.wɔ̃ː</pron>
            <form type="runic">
              <orth>ᛒᚨᛊᚹᛟ</orth>
            </form>
          </form>
          <gramGrp>
            <pos>noun</pos>
            <gram type="gender">feminine</gram>
            <gram type="stem">ōn-stem</gram>
          </gramGrp>
          <sense n="1">
            <def>paternal aunt</def>
          </sense>
          <etym>
            <seg type="p">Unknown. Perhaps originally **waswǭ, then altered to baswǭ under the influence of *baswô (‘uncle’).</seg>
          </etym>
          <re type="paradigm">
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #nom">
              <orth>baswǭ</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #nom">
              <orth>baswōniz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #acc">
              <orth>baswōnų</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #acc">
              <orth>baswōnunz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #gen">
              <orth>baswōniz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #gen">
              <orth>baswōnǫ̂</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #dat">
              <orth>baswōni</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #dat">
              <orth>baswōmaz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #instr">
              <orth>baswōnē</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #instr">
              <orth>baswōmiz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #voc">
              <orth>baswǭ</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #voc">
              <orth>baswōniz</orth>
            </form>
          </re>
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                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*baswā</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old High German</lang>
                    <orth>basa, pasa</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Old High German</lang>
                      <orth>basūnsunu</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*baswā</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old High German</lang>
                    <orth>basa, pasa</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle High German</lang>
                      <orth>base</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Alemannic German</lang>
                        <orth>Base</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>German</lang>
                        <orth>Base</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
            </list>
          </re>
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