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        <title type="main">Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *dailą</title>
        <author>Scott K. Shay</author>
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        <publisher>Wardja Press</publisher>
        <date when="2026-10-01"/>
        <idno type="URL">https://protogermanic.org/pgmc_dailą</idno>
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            <title level="m">Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 4)</title>
            <author>
              <forename>Rick</forename>
              <surname>Derksen</surname>
            </author>
            <imprint>
              <publisher>Brill</publisher>
              <date>2008</date>
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          <monogr>
            <title level="m">Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 11)</title>
            <author>
              <forename>Guus</forename>
              <surname>Kroonen</surname>
            </author>
            <imprint>
              <publisher>Brill</publisher>
              <date>2013</date>
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          <orth>*dělo</orth>
          <def>deed, act; work, operation, activity</def>
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          <form type="lemma">
            <orth>dailą</orth>
            <pron notation="ipa">ˈdɑi̯.lɑ̃</pron>
            <form type="runic">
              <orth>ᛞᚨᛁᛚᚨ</orth>
            </form>
          </form>
          <gramGrp>
            <pos>noun</pos>
            <gram type="gender">neuter</gram>
            <gram type="stem">a-stem</gram>
          </gramGrp>
          <sense n="1">
            <def>part, portion, deal</def>
          </sense>
          <etym>
            <seg type="p">A Proto-Germanic/Balto-Slavic isogloss, per <bibl corresp="#kroonen2013">Kroonen 2013</bibl>. <bibl corresp="#derksen2008">Derksen 2008</bibl> notes Proto-Slavic <mentioned xml:lang="sla-x-proto" target="#cog_sla-x-proto_delo"><ref target="#cog_sla-x-proto_delo">*dělo</ref></mentioned> (‘deed, act; work, operation, activity’) from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-l-, an l-extension of root dʰeh₁- (‘to put, make’). The pre-Germanic form would need to have been *dʰoih₁-l-om, with an o-grade diphthongized root. Related to *dailiz (‘part, portion, deal’) and dailǭ (‘part, portion, deal’, division).</seg>
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            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #nom">
              <orth>dailą</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #nom">
              <orth>dailō</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #acc">
              <orth>dailą</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #acc">
              <orth>dailō</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #gen">
              <orth>dailas, dailis</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #gen">
              <orth>dailǫ̂</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #dat">
              <orth>dailai</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #dat">
              <orth>dailamaz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #instr">
              <orth>dailō</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #instr">
              <orth>dailamiz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #voc">
              <orth>dailą</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #voc">
              <orth>dailō</orth>
            </form>
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                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old English</lang>
                  <orth>dāl</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Middle English</lang>
                    <orth>dal, dol</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>English</lang>
                      <orth>dole, deal</orth>
                    </form>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Scots</lang>
                      <orth>dale, dail</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Frisian</lang>
                  <orth>dēl</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Saterland Frisian</lang>
                    <orth>Deel</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>West Frisian</lang>
                    <orth>diel</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Saxon</lang>
                  <orth>dēl, deil</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Middle Low German</lang>
                    <orth>dēl, deil</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Low German</lang>
                      <orth>Deel</orth>
                    </form>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Low German</lang>
                      <orth>Deel</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Dutch</lang>
                  <orth>*dēl, deil</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Middle Dutch</lang>
                    <orth>dele, deel</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Dutch</lang>
                      <orth>deel</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Afrikaans</lang>
                        <orth>deel</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old High German</lang>
                  <orth>teil</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Middle High German</lang>
                    <orth>teil</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>German</lang>
                      <orth>Teil</orth>
                    </form>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Luxembourgish</lang>
                      <orth>Deel</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
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