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        <title type="main">Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *feþur-</title>
        <author>Scott K. Shay</author>
      </titleStmt>
      <publicationStmt>
        <publisher>Wardja Press</publisher>
        <date when="2026-10-01"/>
        <idno type="URL">https://protogermanic.org/pgmc_feþur</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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      <list type="cognates">
        <item xml:id="cog_ine-x-proto_kwetwores" xml:lang="ine-x-proto" type="etymon">
          <orth>*kʷetwóres</orth>
          <def>four</def>
        </item>
        <item xml:id="cog_ine-x-proto_penkwe" xml:lang="ine-x-proto" type="etymon">
          <orth>*pénkwe</orth>
          <def>five</def>
        </item>
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        <entry xml:id="pgmc_fethur" type="prefix" corresp="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/feþur-">
          <form type="lemma">
            <orth>feþur-</orth>
            <pron notation="ipa">ˈɸe.θur</pron>
            <form type="runic">
              <orth>ᚠᛖᚦᚢᚱ</orth>
            </form>
          </form>
          <gramGrp>
            <pos>prefix</pos>
          </gramGrp>
          <sense n="1" type="function">
            <def>four, pertaining to four</def>
          </sense>
          <etym>
            <seg type="p">From pre-Germanic *pétwr̥- from Proto-Indo-European <mentioned xml:lang="" target="#cog_ine-x-proto_kwetwores"><ref target="#cog_ine-x-proto_kwetwores">*kʷetwóres</ref></mentioned>; a combining form based on the oblique stem, <mentioned xml:lang="gmw-x-proto">*kʷetwr̥-</mentioned>, with irregular consonant change of <mentioned xml:lang="gmw-x-proto">*kw-</mentioned> &gt; <mentioned xml:lang="gmw-x-proto">*p-</mentioned> based on the following number, <mentioned xml:lang="" target="#cog_ine-x-proto_penkwe"><ref target="#cog_ine-x-proto_penkwe">*pénkwe</ref></mentioned>, Proto-Germanic <mentioned xml:lang="" target="#pgmc_fimf"><ref target="#pgmc_fimf">*fimf</ref></mentioned>.</seg>
          </etym>
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              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>fiþur-</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old English</lang>
                    <orth>fiþer-</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-Norse</lang>
                  <orth>*ᚠᛖᚦᚱ- (*feþr-)</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                    <orth>fjaðr-, fer-</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Danish</lang>
                      <orth>fjer-</orth>
                    </form>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Icelandic</lang>
                      <orth>fer-</orth>
                    </form>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Old Swedish</lang>
                      <orth>fiæþer-</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Gothic</lang>
                  <orth>𐍆𐌹𐌳𐌿𐍂- (fidur-)</orth>
                </form>
              </item>
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