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        <title type="main">Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *fingraz</title>
        <author>Scott K. Shay</author>
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      <publicationStmt>
        <publisher>Wardja Press</publisher>
        <date when="2026-10-01"/>
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          <monogr>
            <title level="m">Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 11)</title>
            <author>
              <forename>Guus</forename>
              <surname>Kroonen</surname>
            </author>
            <imprint>
              <publisher>Brill</publisher>
              <date>2013</date>
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        <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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          <form type="lemma">
            <orth>fingraz</orth>
            <pron notation="ipa">ˈɸiŋ.ɡrɑz</pron>
            <form type="runic">
              <orth>ᚠᛁᚾᚷᚱᚨᛉ</orth>
            </form>
          </form>
          <gramGrp>
            <pos>noun</pos>
            <gram type="gender">masculine</gram>
            <gram type="stem">a-stem</gram>
          </gramGrp>
          <sense n="1">
            <def>finger</def>
          </sense>
          <etym>
            <seg type="p">Probably from Proto-Indo-European *penkw-ró-s, from root *penkʷ- (‘fist; to take in hand, to handle’), with typical *e &gt; *i before a nasal + consonant, and delabialization of the final consonant before Verner’s Law applied <bibl corresp="#kroonen2013">Kroonen 2013</bibl>. Related to Proto-Indo-European <mentioned xml:lang="ine-x-proto" target="#cog_ine-x-proto_penkwe"><ref target="#cog_ine-x-proto_penkwe">*pénkwe</ref></mentioned> (‘five’).</seg>
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            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #nom">
              <orth>fingraz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #nom">
              <orth>fingrōz, fingrōs</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #acc">
              <orth>fingrą</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #acc">
              <orth>fingranz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #gen">
              <orth>fingras, fingris</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #gen">
              <orth>fingrǫ̂</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #dat">
              <orth>fingrai</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #dat">
              <orth>fingramaz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #instr">
              <orth>fingrō</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #instr">
              <orth>fingramiz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #voc">
              <orth>fingr</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #voc">
              <orth>fingrōz, fingrōs</orth>
            </form>
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                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*fingr</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Dutch</lang>
                    <orth>fingar</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle Dutch</lang>
                      <orth>vinger</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Limburgish</lang>
                        <orth>vinger, vènger</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*fingr</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Dutch</lang>
                    <orth>fingar</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle Dutch</lang>
                      <orth>vinger</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Dutch</lang>
                        <orth>vinger</orth>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Afrikaans</lang>
                          <orth>vinger</orth>
                        </form>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*fingr</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old English</lang>
                    <orth>finger</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle English</lang>
                      <orth>fynger, ffynger, finger, fiyngir, fyngir, fyngre, fyngur, fyngyr, vinger</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>English</lang>
                        <orth>finger</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Scots</lang>
                        <orth>finger</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*fingr</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Frisian</lang>
                    <orth>finger</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Saterland Frisian</lang>
                      <orth>Finger</orth>
                    </form>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>West Frisian</lang>
                      <orth>finger</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*fingr</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old High German</lang>
                    <orth>fingar</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle High German</lang>
                      <orth>vinger</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>German</lang>
                        <orth>Finger</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Vilamovian</lang>
                        <orth>fyngier</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Yiddish</lang>
                        <orth>פֿינגער (finger)</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*fingr</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old High German</lang>
                    <orth>fingar</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle High German</lang>
                      <orth>vinger</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Bavarian</lang>
                        <orth>Finga</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>German</lang>
                        <orth>Finger</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Luxembourgish</lang>
                        <orth>Fanger</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Swabian</lang>
                        <orth>Fengr</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*fingr</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Saxon</lang>
                    <orth>fingar</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle Low German</lang>
                      <orth>vinger</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Low German</lang>
                        <orth>Finger</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Plautdietsch</lang>
                        <orth>Finja</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>fingr</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Faroese</lang>
                    <orth>fingur</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Icelandic</lang>
                    <orth>fingur</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Norwegian</lang>
                    <orth>finger</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>fingr</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Danish</lang>
                    <orth>fingær</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Danish</lang>
                      <orth>finger</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>fingr</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Swedish</lang>
                    <orth>finger</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Swedish</lang>
                      <orth>finger</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Gothic</lang>
                  <orth>𐍆𐌹𐌲𐌲𐍂𐍃 (figgrs)</orth>
                </form>
              </item>
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