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        <title type="main">Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *furai</title>
        <author>Scott K. Shay</author>
      </titleStmt>
      <publicationStmt>
        <publisher>Wardja Press</publisher>
        <date when="2026-10-01"/>
        <idno type="URL">https://protogermanic.org/pgmc_furai_1</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_grc_parai" xml:lang="grc" type="cognate">
          <orth>παραί</orth>
          <form type="translit">
            <orth>paraí</orth>
          </form>
        </item>
        <item xml:id="cog_san_pure" xml:lang="san" type="cognate">
          <orth>पुरे</orth>
          <form type="translit">
            <orth>pure</orth>
          </form>
        </item>
      </list>
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        <entry xml:id="pgmc_furai_1" type="adverb" corresp="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/furai">
          <form type="lemma">
            <orth>furai</orth>
            <pron notation="ipa">ˈɸu.rɑi̯</pron>
            <form type="runic">
              <orth>ᚠᚢᚱᚨᛁ</orth>
            </form>
          </form>
          <gramGrp>
            <pos>adverb</pos>
          </gramGrp>
          <sense n="1">
            <def>before, in front</def>
          </sense>
          <etym>
            <seg type="p">From Proto-Indo-European *pr̥h₂-éy, an innovative dative formation from *preh₂-. Compare Latin prae, Ancient Greek <mentioned xml:lang="grc" target="#cog_grc_parai"><ref target="#cog_grc_parai">παραί</ref></mentioned> (paraí) and Sanskrit <mentioned xml:lang="san" target="#cog_san_pure"><ref target="#cog_san_pure">पुरे</ref></mentioned> (pure). Alternatively from *pr̥h₃-éy or *pr̥h₃-óy, from *perh₃-. In any case, ultimately from the root *per-.</seg>
          </etym>
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              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*forē</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Frisian</lang>
                    <orth>fore</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*forē</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Dutch</lang>
                    <orth>fora, fore</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle Dutch</lang>
                      <orth>vōre, vor, vōor</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Limburgish</lang>
                        <orth>veur</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*forē</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Dutch</lang>
                    <orth>fora, fore</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle Dutch</lang>
                      <orth>vōre, vor, vōor</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Dutch</lang>
                        <orth>voor, vore</orth>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Afrikaans</lang>
                          <orth>voor</orth>
                        </form>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Berbice Creole Dutch</lang>
                          <orth>foro</orth>
                        </form>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Javindo</lang>
                          <orth>foor</orth>
                        </form>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Manado Malay</lang>
                          <orth>for</orth>
                        </form>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Negerhollands</lang>
                          <orth>voor, fo, for</orth>
                        </form>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Petjo</lang>
                          <orth>voor, foor</orth>
                        </form>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Skepi Creole Dutch</lang>
                          <orth>foo, fou</orth>
                        </form>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*forē</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Dutch</lang>
                    <orth>fora, fore</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle Dutch</lang>
                      <orth>vōre, vor, vōor</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Dutch</lang>
                        <orth>voor, vore</orth>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Jersey Dutch</lang>
                          <orth>för, f'r</orth>
                          <form type="descendant">
                            <lang>Virgin Islands Creole</lang>
                            <orth>voor</orth>
                          </form>
                        </form>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*forē</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old English</lang>
                    <orth>fore</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle English</lang>
                      <orth>fore</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>English</lang>
                        <orth>fore</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Scots</lang>
                        <orth>fore</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*forē</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old High German</lang>
                    <orth>fora, for, fore</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle High German</lang>
                      <orth>vor, vore</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Bavarian</lang>
                        <orth>?</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Central Franconian</lang>
                        <orth>vür</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>German</lang>
                        <orth>vor</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*forē</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Saxon</lang>
                    <orth>fora, for, fore, fur, far</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>German Low German</lang>
                      <orth>för, vär, veer, ver, vör, vœr</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>fyrir</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Norn</lang>
                    <orth>for</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>fyrir</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Swedish</lang>
                    <orth>fyri(r), for</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Swedish</lang>
                      <orth>före, för</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Gothic</lang>
                  <orth>𐍆𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌰 (faura)</orth>
                </form>
              </item>
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