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        <title type="main">Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *fedwōr tigiwiz</title>
        <author>Scott K. Shay</author>
      </titleStmt>
      <publicationStmt>
        <publisher>Wardja Press</publisher>
        <date when="2026-10-01"/>
        <idno type="URL">https://protogermanic.org/pgmc_fedwōr_tigiwiz</idno>
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      <sourceDesc>
        <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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            <orth>fedwōr tigiwiz</orth>
            <pron notation="ipa">ˈɸeð.wɔːr ˈti.ɣi.wiz</pron>
            <form type="runic">
              <orth>ᚠᛖᛞᚹᛟᚱ ᛏᛁᚷᛁᚹᛁᛉ</orth>
            </form>
          </form>
          <gramGrp>
            <pos>numeral</pos>
          </gramGrp>
          <sense n="1">
            <def>forty (with genitive)</def>
          </sense>
          <etym>
            <seg type="p">From *fedwōr (‘four’) + *tigiwiz, plural of *teguz (‘group of ten’), literally ‘four groups of ten’.</seg>
          </etym>
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              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>feuwar-tigī</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Dutch</lang>
                    <orth>*fiortig, *viurtig</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle Dutch</lang>
                      <orth>viertich, viertech, vēertich, vēertech</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Limburgish</lang>
                        <orth>veertig</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>feuwar-tigī</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Dutch</lang>
                    <orth>*fiortig, *viurtig</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle Dutch</lang>
                      <orth>viertich, viertech, vēertich, vēertech</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Dutch</lang>
                        <orth>veertig</orth>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Afrikaans</lang>
                          <orth>veertig</orth>
                        </form>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>feuwar-tigī</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old English</lang>
                    <orth>fēowertiġ</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle English</lang>
                      <orth>forty</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>English</lang>
                        <orth>forty</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Scots</lang>
                        <orth>fowerty, foorty</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Yola</lang>
                        <orth>vorty</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>feuwar-tigī</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Frisian</lang>
                    <orth>fiūwertich</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Saterland Frisian</lang>
                      <orth>fjautich</orth>
                    </form>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>West Frisian</lang>
                      <orth>fjirtich</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>feuwar-tigī</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Saxon</lang>
                    <orth>fiuwartig</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle Low German</lang>
                      <orth>viertich</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Low German</lang>
                        <orth>veertig</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Plautdietsch</lang>
                        <orth>vieetich</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old High German</lang>
                  <orth>fiorzug</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Middle High German</lang>
                    <orth>vierzic</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Cimbrian</lang>
                      <orth>viarskh, viartzekh</orth>
                    </form>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>German</lang>
                      <orth>vierzig</orth>
                    </form>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Luxembourgish</lang>
                      <orth>véierzeg</orth>
                    </form>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Yiddish</lang>
                      <orth>פֿערציק (fertsik)</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>fjórir tigir, fjórutigi</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Faroese</lang>
                    <orth>fjøruti</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Icelandic</lang>
                    <orth>fjörutíu</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Norwegian</lang>
                    <orth>førti</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>fjórir tigir, fjórutigi</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Danish</lang>
                    <orth>fyrretyve, fyrre</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Norwegian Bokmål</lang>
                      <orth>førr</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>fjórir tigir, fjórutigi</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Swedish</lang>
                    <orth>fiūratighi, fȳretighi, fyrætio</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Swedish</lang>
                      <orth>fyrtio</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Gothic</lang>
                  <orth>𐍆𐌹𐌳𐍅𐍉𐍂 𐍄𐌹𐌲𐌾𐌿𐍃 (fidwōr tigjus)</orth>
                </form>
              </item>
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