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        <title type="main">Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *lētaz</title>
        <author>Scott K. Shay</author>
      </titleStmt>
      <publicationStmt>
        <publisher>Wardja Press</publisher>
        <date when="2026-10-02"/>
        <idno type="URL">https://protogermanic.org/pgmc_lētaz</idno>
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        <entry xml:id="pgmc_letaz" type="noun" corresp="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/lētaz">
          <form type="lemma">
            <orth>lētaz</orth>
            <pron notation="ipa">ˈlɛː.tɑz</pron>
            <form type="runic">
              <orth>ᛚᛖᛏᚨᛉ</orth>
            </form>
          </form>
          <gramGrp>
            <pos>noun</pos>
            <gram type="gender">masculine</gram>
            <gram type="stem">a-stem</gram>
          </gramGrp>
          <sense n="1">
            <def>freeman</def>
          </sense>
          <sense n="2">
            <def>bondsman; serf</def>
          </sense>
          <etym>
            <seg type="p">From *lētaną (‘to let; free; release’).</seg>
          </etym>
          <re type="paradigm">
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #nom">
              <orth>lētaz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #nom">
              <orth>lētōz, lētōs</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #acc">
              <orth>lētą</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #acc">
              <orth>lētanz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #gen">
              <orth>lētas, lētis</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #gen">
              <orth>lētǫ̂</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #dat">
              <orth>lētai</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #dat">
              <orth>lētamaz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #instr">
              <orth>lētō</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #instr">
              <orth>lētamiz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #voc">
              <orth>lēt</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #voc">
              <orth>lētōz, lētōs</orth>
            </form>
          </re>
          <re type="descendants">
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              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*lāt</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old English</lang>
                    <orth>lǣt</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Frisian</lang>
                    <orth>lēt</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*lāt</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Dutch</lang>
                    <orth>*lāt</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle Dutch</lang>
                      <orth>lâet</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Dutch</lang>
                        <orth>laat</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*lāt</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old High German</lang>
                    <orth>lāz, lāza</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle High German</lang>
                      <orth>lazze</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*lāt</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Saxon</lang>
                    <orth>lāt</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle Low German</lang>
                      <orth>*lât, lat</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>látr</orth>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Gothic</lang>
                  <orth>*𐌻𐌴𐍄𐍃 (*lēts)</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Medieval Latin</lang>
                    <orth>laetus, litus</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Old Dutch</lang>
                      <orth>lito</orth>
                    </form>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Old Saxon</lang>
                      <orth>lido, liddo</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Gothic</lang>
                  <orth>*𐌻𐌴𐍄𐍃 (*lēts)</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Medieval Latin</lang>
                    <orth>laetus, litus</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Old High German</lang>
                      <orth>litus</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Middle High German</lang>
                        <orth>*lite</orth>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>German</lang>
                          <orth>Lite</orth>
                        </form>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
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