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        <title type="main">Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *midjagardaz</title>
        <author>Scott K. Shay</author>
      </titleStmt>
      <publicationStmt>
        <publisher>Wardja Press</publisher>
        <date when="2026-10-01"/>
        <idno type="URL">https://protogermanic.org/pgmc_midjagardaz</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_midjagardaz" type="noun" corresp="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/midjagardaz">
          <form type="lemma">
            <orth>midjagardaz</orth>
            <pron notation="ipa">ˈmið.jɑ.ˌɣɑr.ðɑz</pron>
            <form type="runic">
              <orth>ᛗᛁᛞᛃᚨᚷᚨᚱᛞᚨᛉ</orth>
            </form>
          </form>
          <gramGrp>
            <pos>noun</pos>
            <gram type="gender">masculine</gram>
            <gram type="stem">a-stem</gram>
          </gramGrp>
          <sense n="1">
            <def>The world</def>
          </sense>
          <sense n="2">
            <def>Middle Earth</def>
          </sense>
          <etym>
            <seg type="p">From *midjaz (‘middle’) + *gardaz (‘yard, enclosure’).</seg>
          </etym>
          <re type="paradigm">
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #nom">
              <orth>midjagardaz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #nom">
              <orth>midjagardōz, midjagardōs</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #acc">
              <orth>midjagardą</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #acc">
              <orth>midjagardanz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #gen">
              <orth>midjagardas, midjagardis</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #gen">
              <orth>midjagardǫ̂</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #dat">
              <orth>midjagardai</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #dat">
              <orth>midjagardamaz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #instr">
              <orth>midjagardō</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #instr">
              <orth>midjagardamiz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #voc">
              <orth>midjagard</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #voc">
              <orth>midjagardōz, midjagardōs</orth>
            </form>
          </re>
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              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old English</lang>
                  <orth>middanġeard</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Middle English</lang>
                    <orth>middenerd, middæneard, middeneard, middenerde, middenard</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old English</lang>
                  <orth>middanġeard</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Middle English</lang>
                    <orth>myddyl erthe, middel-erde</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>English</lang>
                      <orth>Middle Earth</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old English</lang>
                  <orth>middaneard</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Middle English</lang>
                    <orth>middenerd, middæneard, middeneard, middenerde, middenard</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old English</lang>
                  <orth>middaneard</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Middle English</lang>
                    <orth>myddyl erthe, middel-erde</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>English</lang>
                      <orth>Middle Earth</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old English</lang>
                  <orth>myddanġeard</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Middle English</lang>
                    <orth>middenerd, middæneard, middeneard, middenerde, middenard</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old English</lang>
                  <orth>myddanġeard</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Middle English</lang>
                    <orth>myddyl erthe, middel-erde</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>English</lang>
                      <orth>Middle Earth</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Saxon</lang>
                  <orth>middilgard</orth>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old High German</lang>
                  <orth>mittilgart</orth>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old High German</lang>
                  <orth>mittigart</orth>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old High German</lang>
                  <orth>mittilagart</orth>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old High German</lang>
                  <orth>mittangart</orth>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old High German</lang>
                  <orth>mittingart</orth>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old High German</lang>
                  <orth>mittingard</orth>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old High German</lang>
                  <orth>mittilicart</orth>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>Miðgarðr</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>English</lang>
                    <orth>Midgard</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Faroese</lang>
                    <orth>Miðgarður</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Icelandic</lang>
                    <orth>Miðgarður</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Norwegian Bokmål</lang>
                    <orth>Midgard</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Norwegian Nynorsk</lang>
                    <orth>Midgard</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Swedish</lang>
                    <orth>Midgård</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>Miðgarðr</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Danish</lang>
                    <orth>Midgård</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Norwegian Bokmål</lang>
                      <orth>Midgård</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Gothic</lang>
                  <orth>𐌼𐌹𐌳𐌾𐌿𐌽𐌲𐌰𐍂𐌳𐍃 (midjungards)</orth>
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