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        <title type="main">Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *gīslaz</title>
        <author>Scott K. Shay</author>
      </titleStmt>
      <publicationStmt>
        <publisher>Wardja Press</publisher>
        <date when="2026-10-02"/>
        <idno type="URL">https://protogermanic.org/pgmc_gīslaz</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_cel-x-proto_geistlos" xml:lang="cel-x-proto" type="cognate">
          <orth>*geistlos</orth>
          <def>hostage, pledge</def>
        </item>
        <item xml:id="cog_ine-x-proto_gheydh" xml:lang="ine-x-proto" type="etymon">
          <orth>*gʰeydʰ-</orth>
          <def>to desire, wait for</def>
        </item>
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        <entry xml:id="pgmc_gislaz" type="noun" corresp="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/gīslaz">
          <form type="lemma">
            <orth>gīslaz</orth>
            <pron notation="ipa">ˈɣiːs.lɑz</pron>
            <form type="runic">
              <orth>ᚷᛁᛊᛚᚨᛉ</orth>
            </form>
          </form>
          <gramGrp>
            <pos>noun</pos>
            <gram type="gender">masculine</gram>
            <gram type="stem">a-stem</gram>
          </gramGrp>
          <sense n="1">
            <def>hostage</def>
          </sense>
          <etym>
            <seg type="p">Borrowed from Proto-Celtic <mentioned xml:lang="cel-x-proto" target="#cog_cel-x-proto_geistlos"><ref target="#cog_cel-x-proto_geistlos">*geistlos</ref></mentioned> (‘hostage, pledge’) (compare Old Irish gíall, Welsh gwystl), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European <mentioned xml:lang="ine-x-proto" target="#cog_ine-x-proto_gheydh"><ref target="#cog_ine-x-proto_gheydh">*gʰeydʰ-</ref></mentioned> (‘to desire, wait for’).</seg>
          </etym>
          <re type="paradigm">
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #nom">
              <orth>gīslaz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #nom">
              <orth>gīslōz, gīslōs</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #acc">
              <orth>gīslą</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #acc">
              <orth>gīslanz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #gen">
              <orth>gīslas, gīslis</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #gen">
              <orth>gīslǫ̂</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #dat">
              <orth>gīslai</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #dat">
              <orth>gīslamaz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #instr">
              <orth>gīslō</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #instr">
              <orth>gīslamiz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #voc">
              <orth>gīsl</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #voc">
              <orth>gīslōz, gīslōs</orth>
            </form>
          </re>
          <re type="descendants">
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              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*gīsl</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Dutch</lang>
                    <orth>*gīsal</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle Dutch</lang>
                      <orth>gisel</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Dutch</lang>
                        <orth>gijzel</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>West Frisian</lang>
                        <orth>gizel</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*gīsl</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Dutch</lang>
                    <orth>*gīsal</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle Dutch</lang>
                      <orth>gisel</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Middle Dutch</lang>
                        <orth>giselare</orth>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Dutch</lang>
                          <orth>gijzelaar</orth>
                        </form>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>West Frisian</lang>
                          <orth>gizeler</orth>
                        </form>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*gīsl</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old English</lang>
                    <orth>ġīsel, ġīsl</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle English</lang>
                      <orth>ȝisel, ȝisle</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*gīsl</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old High German</lang>
                    <orth>gīsal, gîsil</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle High German</lang>
                      <orth>gīsel</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>German</lang>
                        <orth>Geisel</orth>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>German Low German</lang>
                          <orth>Geisel</orth>
                        </form>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*gīsl</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Saxon</lang>
                    <orth>gīsal</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle Low German</lang>
                      <orth>gîsel</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Low German</lang>
                        <orth>Giesel</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-Norse</lang>
                  <orth>*ᚷᛁᛊᛚᚨᛉ (*gislaʀ)</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                    <orth>gísl</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Danish</lang>
                      <orth>gidsel</orth>
                    </form>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Faroese</lang>
                      <orth>gísli</orth>
                    </form>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Icelandic</lang>
                      <orth>gísl</orth>
                    </form>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Norwegian Bokmål</lang>
                      <orth>gissel</orth>
                    </form>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Norwegian Nynorsk</lang>
                      <orth>gissel, gisl</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-Norse</lang>
                  <orth>*ᚷᛁᛊᛚᚨᛉ (*gislaʀ)</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                    <orth>gísl</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Old Swedish</lang>
                      <orth>gīsl</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Old Swedish</lang>
                        <orth>gislan</orth>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Swedish</lang>
                          <orth>gisslan</orth>
                        </form>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-Finnic</lang>
                  <orth>*kihla</orth>
                </form>
              </item>
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