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        <title type="main">Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *mairiją</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_mairiją</idno>
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      <list type="cognates">
        <item xml:id="cog_lat_murus" xml:lang="lat" type="cognate">
          <orth>mūrus</orth>
          <def>wall</def>
        </item>
        <item xml:id="cog_san_minoti" xml:lang="san" type="cognate">
          <orth>मिनोति</orth>
          <form type="translit">
            <orth>minóti</orth>
          </form>
          <def>to fix, build</def>
        </item>
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        <entry xml:id="pgmc_mairija" type="noun" corresp="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/mairiją">
          <form type="lemma">
            <orth>mairiją</orth>
            <pron notation="ipa">ˈmɑi̯.ri.jɑ̃</pron>
            <form type="runic">
              <orth>ᛗᚨᛁᚱᛁᛃᚨ</orth>
            </form>
          </form>
          <gramGrp>
            <pos>noun</pos>
            <gram type="gender">neuter</gram>
            <gram type="stem">ja-stem</gram>
          </gramGrp>
          <sense n="1">
            <def>mooring post, post, boundary</def>
          </sense>
          <etym>
            <seg type="p">From pre-Germanic *moyryom, from Proto-Indo-European *moyro-, from *mey- (‘to build’). Cognate with Latin <mentioned xml:lang="lat" target="#cog_lat_murus"><ref target="#cog_lat_murus">mūrus</ref></mentioned> (‘wall’), pōmērium (‘bounds, limits’), Sanskrit <mentioned xml:lang="san" target="#cog_san_minoti"><ref target="#cog_san_minoti">मिनोति</ref></mentioned> (minóti, ‘to fix, build’).</seg>
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            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #nom">
              <orth>mairiją</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #nom">
              <orth>mairijō</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #acc">
              <orth>mairiją</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #acc">
              <orth>mairijō</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #gen">
              <orth>mairijas, mairīs</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #gen">
              <orth>mairijǫ̂</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #dat">
              <orth>mairijai</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #dat">
              <orth>mairijamaz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #instr">
              <orth>mairijō</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #instr">
              <orth>mairijamiz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #voc">
              <orth>mairiją</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #voc">
              <orth>mairijō</orth>
            </form>
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                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*mairī</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Dutch</lang>
                    <orth>*mēri</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle Dutch</lang>
                      <orth>mere, meer</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Dutch</lang>
                        <orth>meren</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*mairī</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old English</lang>
                    <orth>mǣre</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle English</lang>
                      <orth>mere</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>English</lang>
                        <orth>mere</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Yola</lang>
                        <orth>pulmere</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>*mæri</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Icelandic</lang>
                    <orth>landamæri</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Danish</lang>
                    <orth>landemæræ</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>*mæri</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Swedish</lang>
                    <orth>landamǣre</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Swedish</lang>
                      <orth>landamäre</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>landamæri</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Icelandic</lang>
                    <orth>landamæri</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Danish</lang>
                    <orth>landemæræ</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>landamæri</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Swedish</lang>
                    <orth>landamǣre</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Swedish</lang>
                      <orth>landamäre</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
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