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        <title type="main">Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *faimô</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_faimô</idno>
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        <item xml:id="cog_ine-x-proto_peyh2_mn_pih2_men_s" xml:lang="ine-x-proto" type="etymon">
          <orth>*péyh₂-mn̥ ~ *pih₂-mén-s</orth>
        </item>
        <item xml:id="cog_lat_femina" xml:lang="lat" type="cognate">
          <orth>fēmina</orth>
          <def>woman, wife, female</def>
        </item>
        <item xml:id="cog_sla-x-proto_deva" xml:lang="sla-x-proto" type="cognate">
          <orth>*děva</orth>
          <def>maiden, girl</def>
        </item>
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        <entry xml:id="pgmc_faimo" type="noun" corresp="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/faimô">
          <form type="lemma">
            <orth>faimô</orth>
            <pron notation="ipa">ˈɸɑi̯.mɔːː</pron>
            <form type="runic">
              <orth>ᚠᚨᛁᛗᛟ</orth>
            </form>
          </form>
          <gramGrp>
            <pos>noun</pos>
            <gram type="gender">neuter</gram>
            <gram type="stem">an-stem</gram>
          </gramGrp>
          <sense n="1">
            <def>maiden, girl</def>
          </sense>
          <etym>
            <seg type="p">Uncertain. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European <mentioned xml:lang="ine-x-proto" target="#cog_ine-x-proto_peyh2_mn_pih2_men_s"><ref target="#cog_ine-x-proto_peyh2_mn_pih2_men_s">*péyh₂-mn̥ ~ *pih₂-mén-s</ref></mentioned>, an *men-stem from root *peyh₂- (‘swell (with milk); to be swollen, fat’). Compare the semantics of Proto-Slavic <mentioned xml:lang="sla-x-proto" target="#cog_sla-x-proto_deva"><ref target="#cog_sla-x-proto_deva">*děva</ref></mentioned> (‘maiden, girl’) and Latin <mentioned xml:lang="lat" target="#cog_lat_femina"><ref target="#cog_lat_femina">fēmina</ref></mentioned> (‘woman, wife, female’), from PIE *dheh1(y)- (‘to suckle, nurse’). In this variant, a single -m- would be the result of dissimilation in the -mn- cluster.</seg>
          </etym>
          <re type="paradigm">
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #nom">
              <orth>faimô</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #nom">
              <orth>faimōnō</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #acc">
              <orth>faimô</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #acc">
              <orth>faimōnō</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #gen">
              <orth>faiminiz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #gen">
              <orth>faimanǫ̂</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #dat">
              <orth>faimini</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #dat">
              <orth>faimammaz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #instr">
              <orth>faiminē</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #instr">
              <orth>faimammiz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #voc">
              <orth>faimô</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #voc">
              <orth>faimōnō</orth>
            </form>
          </re>
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