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        <title type="main">Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *fedurþungaz</title>
        <author>Scott K. Shay</author>
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        <publisher>Wardja Press</publisher>
        <date when="2026-10-02"/>
        <idno type="URL">https://protogermanic.org/pgmc_fedurþungaz</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_fedurthungaz" type="noun" corresp="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/fedurþungaz">
          <form type="lemma">
            <orth>fedurþungaz</orth>
            <pron notation="ipa">ˈɸe.ður.θuŋ.ɡɑz</pron>
            <form type="runic">
              <orth>ᚠᛖᛞᚢᚱᚦᚢᚾᚷᚨᛉ</orth>
            </form>
          </form>
          <gramGrp>
            <pos>noun</pos>
            <gram type="gender">masculine</gram>
            <gram type="stem">a-stem</gram>
          </gramGrp>
          <sense n="1">
            <def>A fourth part, a quarter</def>
          </sense>
          <etym>
            <seg type="p">From *fedurþô (‘fourth’) + <mentioned xml:lang="gmw-x-proto">*-ungaz</mentioned>, a masculine a-stem suffix forming relational or individualizing nouns; in numeral/ordinal derivatives, a fractional part, ‘the X-th part’. Related to <mentioned xml:lang="gmw-x-proto">*-ingaz</mentioned> and secondarily to the feminine abstract suffixes <mentioned xml:lang="gmw-x-proto">*-ingō</mentioned>, <mentioned xml:lang="gmw-x-proto">*-ungō</mentioned>.</seg>
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          <re type="paradigm">
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #nom">
              <orth>fedurþungaz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #nom">
              <orth>fedurþungōz, fedurþungōs</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #acc">
              <orth>fedurþungą</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #acc">
              <orth>fedurþunganz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #gen">
              <orth>fedurþungas, fedurþungis</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #gen">
              <orth>fedurþungǫ̂</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #dat">
              <orth>fedurþungai</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #dat">
              <orth>fedurþungamaz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #instr">
              <orth>fedurþungō</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #instr">
              <orth>fedurþungamiz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #voc">
              <orth>fedurþung</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #voc">
              <orth>fedurþungōz, fedurþungōs</orth>
            </form>
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                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*feurþung</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Frisian</lang>
                    <orth>fiārdēng, fiārdunge</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*feurþung</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old English</lang>
                    <orth>fēorþung, fēorþing</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle English</lang>
                      <orth>ferthing</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>English</lang>
                        <orth>farthing</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Scots</lang>
                        <orth>ferding, farding</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*feurþung</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old High German</lang>
                    <orth>*fiordung</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle High German</lang>
                      <orth>vierdunc</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>German</lang>
                        <orth>Vierdung</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>fjórðungr</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Faroese</lang>
                    <orth>fjórðingur</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Icelandic</lang>
                    <orth>fjórðungur</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
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