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        <title type="main">Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *gaits</title>
        <author>Scott K. Shay</author>
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      <publicationStmt>
        <publisher>Wardja Press</publisher>
        <date when="2026-10-01"/>
        <idno type="URL">https://protogermanic.org/pgmc_gaits</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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        <entry xml:id="pgmc_gaits" type="noun" corresp="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/gaits">
          <form type="lemma">
            <orth>gaits</orth>
            <pron notation="ipa">ˈɣɑi̯ts</pron>
            <form type="runic">
              <orth>ᚷᚨᛁᛏᛊ</orth>
            </form>
          </form>
          <gramGrp>
            <pos>noun</pos>
            <gram type="gender">feminine</gram>
            <gram type="stem">consonant stem</gram>
          </gramGrp>
          <sense n="1">
            <def>goat</def>
          </sense>
          <etym>
            <seg type="p">Cognate with Proto-Italic *haidos, but cannot be traced back to Proto-Indo-European. According to Bjørn, from the same source as Proto-Semitic *gady-, Proto-Berber *e-ɣăyd, Proto-Nakh *gaaʒaᶰ.</seg>
            <seg type="p">See also *kittīną (‘young animal’) and *kidją (‘goatling’).</seg>
          </etym>
          <re type="paradigm">
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #nom">
              <orth>gaits</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #nom">
              <orth>gaitiz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #acc">
              <orth>gaitų</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #acc">
              <orth>gaitunz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #gen">
              <orth>gaitiz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #gen">
              <orth>gaitǫ̂</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #dat">
              <orth>gaiti</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #dat">
              <orth>gaitumaz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #instr">
              <orth>gaitē</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #instr">
              <orth>gaitumiz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #voc">
              <orth>gait</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #voc">
              <orth>gaitiz</orth>
            </form>
          </re>
          <re type="descendants">
            <list>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*gait</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Walloon</lang>
                    <orth>gade</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*gait</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Dutch</lang>
                    <orth>*geit</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle Dutch</lang>
                      <orth>geit</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Limburgish</lang>
                        <orth>geit</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*gait</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Dutch</lang>
                    <orth>*geit</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle Dutch</lang>
                      <orth>geit</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Dutch</lang>
                        <orth>geit</orth>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Afrikaans</lang>
                          <orth>geit</orth>
                        </form>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*gait</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old English</lang>
                    <orth>gāt</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle English</lang>
                      <orth>got, gat, gathe, goth, goet, gote, gothe, goot</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>English</lang>
                        <orth>goat</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Scots</lang>
                        <orth>gait, gayt</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Yola</lang>
                        <orth>geearth, geearte, gurth</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*gait</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Frisian</lang>
                    <orth>*gāt, *gēt</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>North Frisian</lang>
                      <orth>giet</orth>
                    </form>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>West Frisian</lang>
                      <orth>geit</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*gait</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Frisian</lang>
                    <orth>*gāt, *gēt</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Saterland Frisian</lang>
                      <orth>Geet</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>German Low German</lang>
                        <orth>Jitt</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*gait</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old High German</lang>
                    <orth>geiȥ</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle High German</lang>
                      <orth>geiȥ</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Alemannic German</lang>
                        <orth>Geiss</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Bavarian</lang>
                        <orth>Goaß</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>German</lang>
                        <orth>Geiß</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Luxembourgish</lang>
                        <orth>Geess</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*gait</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Saxon</lang>
                    <orth>gēt</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle Low German</lang>
                      <orth>gete, geite</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>geit</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Elfdalian</lang>
                    <orth>djiet</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Faroese</lang>
                    <orth>geit</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Gutnish</lang>
                    <orth>gait</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Icelandic</lang>
                    <orth>geit</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>geit</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Norwegian Nynorsk</lang>
                    <orth>geit</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Norwegian Bokmål</lang>
                      <orth>geit</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>geit</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Danish</lang>
                    <orth>get</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Danish</lang>
                      <orth>ged</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Norwegian Bokmål</lang>
                        <orth>gjet</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>geit</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Swedish</lang>
                    <orth>gēt, ᚵᚽᛏ</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Swedish</lang>
                      <orth>get</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Gothic</lang>
                  <orth>𐌲𐌰𐌹𐍄𐍃 (gaits)</orth>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-Samic</lang>
                  <orth>*kājccë</orth>
                </form>
              </item>
            </list>
          </re>
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