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        <title type="main">Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *prattuz</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_prattuz</idno>
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        <item xml:id="cog_ine-x-proto_bred" xml:lang="ine-x-proto" type="etymon">
          <orth>*bred-</orth>
          <def>to wander about</def>
        </item>
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        <entry xml:id="pgmc_prattuz" type="noun" corresp="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/prattuz">
          <form type="lemma">
            <orth>prattuz</orth>
            <pron notation="ipa">ˈprɑt.tuz</pron>
            <form type="runic">
              <orth>ᛈᚱᚨᛏᚢᛉ</orth>
            </form>
          </form>
          <gramGrp>
            <pos>noun</pos>
            <gram type="gender">masculine</gram>
            <gram type="stem">u-stem</gram>
          </gramGrp>
          <sense n="1">
            <def>boastful talk</def>
          </sense>
          <sense n="2">
            <def>deceit, trickery, stratagem, list, cunning</def>
          </sense>
          <etym>
            <seg type="p">Perhaps from pre-Germanic *brod-nú-, from Proto-Indo-European <mentioned xml:lang="ine-x-proto" target="#cog_ine-x-proto_bred"><ref target="#cog_ine-x-proto_bred">*bred-</ref></mentioned> (‘to wander about’). Compare Proto-Slavic *brъditi and Latvian bradāt, both meaning “to talk nonsense”. More at prate, prattle.</seg>
          </etym>
          <re type="paradigm">
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #nom">
              <orth>prattuz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #nom">
              <orth>prattiwiz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #acc">
              <orth>prattų</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #acc">
              <orth>prattunz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #gen">
              <orth>prattauz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #gen">
              <orth>prattiwǫ̂</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #dat">
              <orth>prattiwi</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #dat">
              <orth>prattumaz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #instr">
              <orth>prattū</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #instr">
              <orth>prattumiz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #voc">
              <orth>prattu</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #voc">
              <orth>prattiwiz</orth>
            </form>
          </re>
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                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*prattu</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Dutch</lang>
                    <orth>*pratt, *prett</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle Dutch</lang>
                      <orth>pratte, prat, parte, perte, pert</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Dutch</lang>
                        <orth>prat, pret, part</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*prattu</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old English</lang>
                    <orth>prætt, præt</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle English</lang>
                      <orth>præt, pret</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>English</lang>
                        <orth>prat</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Scots</lang>
                        <orth>pratt, prat, prate, pret</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*prattu</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Frisian</lang>
                    <orth>*prat</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Saterland Frisian</lang>
                      <orth>prat, pret</orth>
                    </form>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>West Frisian</lang>
                      <orth>pret</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*prattu</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Saxon</lang>
                    <orth>*pratt, *prett</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle Low German</lang>
                      <orth>pratte</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Low German</lang>
                        <orth>prat, prot</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>prettr</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Faroese</lang>
                    <orth>pret</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Icelandic</lang>
                    <orth>prettur</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Norwegian</lang>
                    <orth>prette</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Scots</lang>
                    <orth>prettikin, prattick</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
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