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        <title type="main">Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *blōtaną</title>
        <author>Scott K. Shay</author>
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      <publicationStmt>
        <publisher>Wardja Press</publisher>
        <date when="2026-10-01"/>
        <idno type="URL">https://protogermanic.org/pgmc_blōtaną</idno>
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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>
            </author>
            <imprint>
              <publisher>Brill</publisher>
              <date>2008</date>
            </imprint>
          </monogr>
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        <item xml:id="cog_ine-x-proto_bhleh2" xml:lang="ine-x-proto" type="etymon">
          <orth>*bʰleh₂-</orth>
        </item>
        <item xml:id="cog_lat_flamen" xml:lang="lat" type="cognate">
          <orth>flāmen</orth>
          <def>priest, flamen</def>
        </item>
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        <entry xml:id="pgmc_blotana" type="verb" corresp="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/blōtaną">
          <form type="lemma">
            <orth>blōtaną</orth>
            <pron notation="ipa">ˈblɔː.tɑ.nɑ̃</pron>
            <form type="runic">
              <orth>ᛒᛚᛟᛏᚨᚾᚨ</orth>
            </form>
          </form>
          <gramGrp>
            <pos>verb</pos>
            <gram type="class">Strong class 7e</gram>
          </gramGrp>
          <sense n="1">
            <def>to worship</def>
          </sense>
          <sense n="2">
            <def>to sacrifice</def>
          </sense>
          <etym>
            <seg type="p">Uncertain. De <bibl corresp="#de_vaan2008">Vaan 2008</bibl> notes a commonly posited cognate in Latin <mentioned xml:lang="lat" target="#cog_lat_flamen"><ref target="#cog_lat_flamen">flāmen</ref></mentioned> (‘priest, flamen’) from Proto-Indo-European <mentioned xml:lang="ine-x-proto" target="#cog_ine-x-proto_bhleh2"><ref target="#cog_ine-x-proto_bhleh2">*bʰleh₂-</ref></mentioned> (d-)mn̥, from a root *bʰleh₂- (‘to call out, speak solemnly; worship’) but this is disputed. If the root is correct, the original form would be PIE *bʰleh₂-d-e/o-. </seg>
          </etym>
          <re type="paradigm">
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #ind #act #p1 #sg">
              <orth>blōtō</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #subj #act #p1 #sg">
              <orth>blōtaų</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #ind #pass #p1 #sg">
              <orth>blōtai</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #ind #act #p2 #sg">
              <orth>blōtizi</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #subj #act #p2 #sg">
              <orth>blōtaiz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #imper #act #p2 #sg">
              <orth>blōt</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #ind #pass #p2 #sg">
              <orth>blōtazai</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #subj #pass #p2 #sg">
              <orth>blōtaizau</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #ind #act #p3 #sg">
              <orth>blōtidi</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #subj #act #p3 #sg">
              <orth>blōtai</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #imper #act #p3 #sg">
              <orth>blōtadau</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #ind #pass #p3 #sg">
              <orth>blōtadai</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #subj #pass #p3 #sg">
              <orth>blōtaidau</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #ind #act #p1 #du">
              <orth>blōtōz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #subj #act #p1 #du">
              <orth>blōtaiw</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #ind #act #p2 #du">
              <orth>blōtadiz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #subj #act #p2 #du">
              <orth>blōtaidiz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #imper #act #p2 #du">
              <orth>blōtadiz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #ind #act #p1 #pl">
              <orth>blōtamaz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #subj #act #p1 #pl">
              <orth>blōtaim</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #ind #pass #p1 #pl">
              <orth>blōtandai</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #subj #pass #p1 #pl">
              <orth>blōtaindau</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #ind #act #p2 #pl">
              <orth>blōtid</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #subj #act #p2 #pl">
              <orth>blōtaid</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #imper #act #p2 #pl">
              <orth>blōtid</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #ind #pass #p2 #pl">
              <orth>blōtandai</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #subj #pass #p2 #pl">
              <orth>blōtaindau</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #ind #act #p3 #pl">
              <orth>blōtandi</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #subj #act #p3 #pl">
              <orth>blōtain</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #imper #act #p3 #pl">
              <orth>blōtandau</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #ind #pass #p3 #pl">
              <orth>blōtandai</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #subj #pass #p3 #pl">
              <orth>blōtaindau</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#past #ind #p1 #sg">
              <orth>beblōt</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#past #subj #p1 #sg">
              <orth>beblōtį̄</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#past #ind #p2 #sg">
              <orth>beblōst</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#past #subj #p2 #sg">
              <orth>beblōtīz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#past #ind #p3 #sg">
              <orth>beblōt</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#past #subj #p3 #sg">
              <orth>beblōtī</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#past #ind #p1 #du">
              <orth>beblōtū</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#past #subj #p1 #du">
              <orth>beblōtīw</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#past #ind #p2 #du">
              <orth>beblōtudiz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#past #subj #p2 #du">
              <orth>beblōtīdiz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#past #ind #p1 #pl">
              <orth>beblōtum</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#past #subj #p1 #pl">
              <orth>beblōtīm</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#past #ind #p2 #pl">
              <orth>beblōtud</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#past #subj #p2 #pl">
              <orth>beblōtīd</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#past #ind #p3 #pl">
              <orth>beblōtun</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#past #subj #p3 #pl">
              <orth>beblōtīn</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="participle" subtype="present">
              <orth>blōtandz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="participle" subtype="past">
              <orth>blōtanaz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="infinitive">
              <orth>blōtaną</orth>
            </form>
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                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*blōtan</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old English</lang>
                    <orth>blōtan</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old High German</lang>
                    <orth>bluozan, pluozan, plozzan</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>blóta</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Danish</lang>
                    <orth>blote</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Faroese</lang>
                    <orth>blóta</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Icelandic</lang>
                    <orth>blóta</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Norwegian Nynorsk</lang>
                    <orth>blóta</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>blóta</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Swedish</lang>
                    <orth>blōta</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Swedish</lang>
                      <orth>blota</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Gothic</lang>
                  <orth>𐌱𐌻𐍉𐍄𐌰𐌽 (blōtan)</orth>
                </form>
              </item>
            </list>
          </re>
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