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        <title type="main">Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *-iþō</title>
        <author>Scott K. Shay</author>
      </titleStmt>
      <publicationStmt>
        <publisher>Wardja Press</publisher>
        <date when="2026-10-01"/>
        <idno type="URL">https://protogermanic.org/pgmc_iþō</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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        <biblStruct xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="book" xml:id="ringe2017" corresp="http://zotero.org/users/21108209/items/JNX9KYWA">
          <monogr>
            <title level="m">From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English, 2nd edition)</title>
            <author>
              <forename>Don</forename>
              <surname>Ringe</surname>
            </author>
            <imprint>
              <pubPlace>Oxford</pubPlace>
              <publisher>Oxford University Press</publisher>
              <date>2017</date>
            </imprint>
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        <item xml:id="cog_san_nagn_ata" xml:lang="san" type="cognate">
          <orth>नग्नता</orth>
          <form type="translit">
            <orth>nagn-átā</orth>
          </form>
          <def>nakedness</def>
        </item>
      </list>
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        <entry xml:id="pgmc_itho" type="suffix" corresp="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/-iþō">
          <form type="lemma">
            <orth>-iþō</orth>
            <pron notation="ipa">i.θɔː</pron>
            <form type="runic">
              <orth>ᛁᚦᛟ</orth>
            </form>
          </form>
          <gramGrp>
            <pos>suffix</pos>
            <gram type="suffixType">noun</gram>
            <gram type="gender">feminine</gram>
            <gram type="stem">ō-stem</gram>
          </gramGrp>
          <sense n="1" type="function">
            <def>-ness, -th, -ity; forms feminine abstract nouns, chiefly from adjectives, denoting a quality, state, or condition</def>
          </sense>
          <etym>
            <seg type="p">This suffix is from Late Proto-Indo-European <mentioned xml:lang="gmw-x-proto">*-é-teh₂</mentioned>, an abstract-noun suffix used especially with adjectives, from the dental abstract suffix <mentioned xml:lang="gmw-x-proto">*-teh</mentioned>₂. Compare Sanskrit <mentioned xml:lang="san" target="#cog_san_nagn_ata"><ref target="#cog_san_nagn_ata">नग्नता</ref></mentioned> with <mentioned xml:lang="gmw-x-proto">-átā</mentioned> reflecting the same <mentioned xml:lang="gmw-x-proto">*-é-teh</mentioned>₂-type. The suffix remained productive in Proto-Germanic and competed with the Germanic innovation <mentioned xml:lang="gmw-x-proto">*-į̄- </mentioned><bibl corresp="#ringe2017" n="149, 326">Ringe 2017: 149, 326</bibl>.</seg>
          </etym>
          <re type="paradigm">
            <form type="inflected" ana="#nom #sg">
              <orth>-iþō</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#nom #pl">
              <orth>-iþôz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#acc #sg">
              <orth>-iþǭ</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#acc #pl">
              <orth>-iþōz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#gen #sg">
              <orth>-iþōz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#gen #pl">
              <orth>-iþǫ̂</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#dat #sg">
              <orth>-iþōi</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#dat #pl">
              <orth>-iþōmaz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#instr #sg">
              <orth>-iþō</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#instr #pl">
              <orth>-iþōmiz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#voc #sg">
              <orth>-iþō</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#voc #pl">
              <orth>-iþôz</orth>
            </form>
          </re>
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                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*-iþu</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Dutch</lang>
                    <orth>-itha</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle Dutch</lang>
                      <orth>-ede, -de, -te</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Dutch</lang>
                        <orth>-te, -de</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*-iþu</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old English</lang>
                    <orth>-þ, -þu, -þo, -t, -to</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle English</lang>
                      <orth>-the, -ðe, -ðhe, -eth, -ethe, -ith, -ithe, -th, -þ, -þe, -yth, -t, -te</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>English</lang>
                        <orth>-th, -t</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Scots</lang>
                        <orth>-th, -t</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*-iþu</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Frisian</lang>
                    <orth>-ithe, -te</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Saterland Frisian</lang>
                      <orth>-te</orth>
                    </form>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>West Frisian</lang>
                      <orth>-te</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*-iþu</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old High German</lang>
                    <orth>-ida</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle High German</lang>
                      <orth>-ede</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>German</lang>
                        <orth>-de</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Luxembourgish</lang>
                        <orth>-t</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*-iþu</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Saxon</lang>
                    <orth>-itha</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle Low German</lang>
                      <orth>-ede, -de, -te</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>German</lang>
                        <orth>-te</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Low German</lang>
                        <orth>-de, -te</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>-ð, -d, -t</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Danish</lang>
                    <orth>-de</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Faroese</lang>
                    <orth>-d</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Icelandic</lang>
                    <orth>-ð, -d, -t</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Norwegian</lang>
                    <orth>-de, -d</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Swedish</lang>
                    <orth>-d</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Gothic</lang>
                  <orth>-𐌹𐌸𐌰 (-iþa), -𐌹𐌳𐌰 (-ida)</orth>
                </form>
              </item>
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