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        <title type="main">Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *flaizô</title>
        <author>Scott K. Shay</author>
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        <publisher>Wardja Press</publisher>
        <date when="2026-10-01"/>
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            <title level="m">Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 10/1)</title>
            <author>
              <forename>Robert</forename>
              <surname>Beekes</surname>
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            <title level="m">A Comparative Grammar of the Early Germanic Languages</title>
            <author>
              <forename>Robert D.</forename>
              <surname>Fulk</surname>
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              <publisher>John Benjamins Publishing Company</publisher>
              <date>2018</date>
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            <title level="m">Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 11)</title>
            <author>
              <forename>Guus</forename>
              <surname>Kroonen</surname>
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            <orth>flaizô</orth>
            <pron notation="ipa">ˈɸlɑi̯.zɔːː</pron>
            <form type="runic">
              <orth>ᚠᛚᚨᛁᛉᛟ</orth>
            </form>
          </form>
          <gramGrp>
            <pos>adj</pos>
            <gram type="stem">n-stem</gram>
          </gramGrp>
          <sense n="1">
            <def>more</def>
          </sense>
          <etym>
            <seg type="p">The comparative of *felu (‘much, a lot; a lot of’), from pre-Germanic <mentioned xml:lang="gmw-x-proto">*plóh1-is-on-</mentioned>, from an o-grade form of root <mentioned xml:lang="gmw-x-proto">*pleh1-</mentioned>(‘to fill’) + the comparative suffix <mentioned xml:lang="gmw-x-proto">*-is-</mentioned><bibl corresp="#kroonen2013">Kroonen 2013</bibl>. Note that adjectives in the comparative degree take only weak endings <bibl corresp="#fulk2018">Fulk 2018</bibl>. Cognate with Ancient Greek πλείων (pleíōn, ‘more’, comparative degree of πολύς (polús, ‘many, a lot of’)) <bibl corresp="#beekes2010">Beekes 2010</bibl> and Latin plūs (‘more, several, many’, comparative degree of multus (‘many’)).</seg>
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            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #nom #masc">
              <orth>flaizô</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #nom #fem">
              <orth>flaizǭ</orth>
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            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #nom #neut">
              <orth>flaizô</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #nom #masc">
              <orth>flaizaniz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #nom #fem">
              <orth>flaizōniz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #nom #neut">
              <orth>flaizōnō</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #acc #masc">
              <orth>flaizanų</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #acc #fem">
              <orth>flaizōnų</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #acc #neut">
              <orth>flaizô</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #acc #masc">
              <orth>flaizanunz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #acc #fem">
              <orth>flaizōnunz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #acc #neut">
              <orth>flaizōnō</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #gen #masc">
              <orth>flaiziniz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #gen #fem">
              <orth>flaizōniz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #gen #neut">
              <orth>flaiziniz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #gen #masc">
              <orth>flaizanǫ̂</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #gen #fem">
              <orth>flaizōnǫ̂</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #gen #neut">
              <orth>flaizanǫ̂</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #dat #masc">
              <orth>flaizini</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #dat #fem">
              <orth>flaizōni</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #dat #neut">
              <orth>flaizini</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #dat #masc">
              <orth>flaizammaz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #dat #fem">
              <orth>flaizōmaz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #dat #neut">
              <orth>flaizammaz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #instr #masc">
              <orth>flaizinē</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #instr #fem">
              <orth>flaizōnē</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #instr #neut">
              <orth>flaizinē</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #instr #masc">
              <orth>flaizammiz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #instr #fem">
              <orth>flaizōmiz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #instr #neut">
              <orth>flaizammiz</orth>
            </form>
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                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>fleiri</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Danish</lang>
                    <orth>flere</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Faroese</lang>
                    <orth>fleiri</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Icelandic</lang>
                    <orth>fleiri</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Norwegian Bokmål</lang>
                    <orth>fler, flere</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Norwegian Nynorsk</lang>
                    <orth>fleire</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>fleiri</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Swedish</lang>
                    <orth>flere</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Swedish</lang>
                      <orth>fler, flera</orth>
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                  </form>
                </form>
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