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        <title type="main">Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *fahsą</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_fahsą</idno>
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        <item xml:id="cog_grc_pokos" xml:lang="grc" type="cognate">
          <orth>πόκος</orth>
          <form type="translit">
            <orth>pókos</orth>
          </form>
          <def>wool; shorn wool, fleece</def>
        </item>
        <item xml:id="cog_ine-x-proto_pok_s_o_m" xml:lang="ine-x-proto" type="etymon">
          <orth>*póḱ-s-o-m</orth>
          <def>hair; literally ‘that which is combed, shorn, or plucked’</def>
        </item>
        <item xml:id="cog_san_paksman" xml:lang="san" type="cognate">
          <orth>पक्ष्मन्</orth>
          <form type="translit">
            <orth>pákṣman</orth>
          </form>
          <def>eyelash, hair, filament of a flower</def>
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        <entry xml:id="pgmc_fahsa" type="noun" corresp="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/fahsą">
          <form type="lemma">
            <orth>fahsą</orth>
            <pron notation="ipa">ˈɸɑx.sɑ̃</pron>
            <form type="runic">
              <orth>ᚠᚨᚺᛊᚨ</orth>
            </form>
          </form>
          <gramGrp>
            <pos>noun</pos>
            <gram type="gender">neuter</gram>
            <gram type="stem">a-stem</gram>
          </gramGrp>
          <sense n="1">
            <def>hair</def>
          </sense>
          <sense n="2">
            <def>mane</def>
          </sense>
          <etym>
            <seg type="p">From Proto-Indo-European <mentioned xml:lang="ine-x-proto" target="#cog_ine-x-proto_pok_s_o_m"><ref target="#cog_ine-x-proto_pok_s_o_m">*póḱ-s-o-m</ref></mentioned> (‘hair; literally ‘that which is combed, shorn, or plucked’’), from Proto-Indo-European *peḱ- (‘to pluck (wool, hair)’). Cognate with Ancient Greek <mentioned xml:lang="grc" target="#cog_grc_pokos"><ref target="#cog_grc_pokos">πόκος</ref></mentioned> (pókos, ‘wool; shorn wool, fleece’) and Sanskrit <mentioned xml:lang="san" target="#cog_san_paksman"><ref target="#cog_san_paksman">पक्ष्मन्</ref></mentioned> (pákṣman, ‘eyelash, hair, filament of a flower’).</seg>
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            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #nom">
              <orth>fahsą</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #nom">
              <orth>fahsō</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #acc">
              <orth>fahsą</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #acc">
              <orth>fahsō</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #gen">
              <orth>fahsas, fahsis</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #gen">
              <orth>fahsǫ̂</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #dat">
              <orth>fahsai</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #dat">
              <orth>fahsamaz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #instr">
              <orth>fahsō</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #instr">
              <orth>fahsamiz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #voc">
              <orth>fahsą</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #voc">
              <orth>fahsō</orth>
            </form>
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                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*fahs</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Frisian</lang>
                    <orth>fax</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Saxon</lang>
                    <orth>fahs</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*fahs</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Dutch</lang>
                    <orth>*fahs</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle Dutch</lang>
                      <orth>vas</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Dutch</lang>
                        <orth>vas</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*fahs</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old English</lang>
                    <orth>feax</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle English</lang>
                      <orth>fax</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>English</lang>
                        <orth>fax</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Scots</lang>
                        <orth>fax</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*fahs</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old High German</lang>
                    <orth>fahs</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle High German</lang>
                      <orth>vahs</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Alemannic German</lang>
                        <orth>Fachs</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>fax</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Faroese</lang>
                    <orth>faks</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Icelandic</lang>
                    <orth>fax</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Norwegian</lang>
                    <orth>faks</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Scots</lang>
                    <orth>fax</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
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