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        <title type="main">Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *rekaz</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_rekaz</idno>
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      <list type="cognates">
        <item xml:id="cog_ine-x-proto_h3regs" xml:lang="ine-x-proto" type="etymon">
          <orth>*h₃rḗǵs</orth>
          <def>king</def>
        </item>
        <item xml:id="cog_lat_rex" xml:lang="lat" type="cognate">
          <orth>rēx</orth>
          <def>king</def>
        </item>
      </list>
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        <entry xml:id="pgmc_rekaz" type="noun" corresp="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/rekaz">
          <form type="lemma">
            <orth>rekaz</orth>
            <pron notation="ipa">ˈre.kɑz</pron>
            <form type="runic">
              <orth>ᚱᛖᚲᚨᛉ</orth>
            </form>
          </form>
          <gramGrp>
            <pos>noun</pos>
            <gram type="gender">masculine</gram>
            <gram type="stem">a-stem</gram>
          </gramGrp>
          <sense n="1">
            <def>A ruler, chief</def>
          </sense>
          <sense n="2">
            <def>A king</def>
          </sense>
          <sense n="3">
            <def>A prince</def>
          </sense>
          <etym>
            <seg type="p">From Proto-Indo-European <mentioned xml:lang="ine-x-proto" target="#cog_ine-x-proto_h3regs"><ref target="#cog_ine-x-proto_h3regs">*h₃rḗǵs</ref></mentioned> (‘chief, king’). Cognate with Latin <mentioned xml:lang="lat" target="#cog_lat_rex"><ref target="#cog_lat_rex">rēx</ref></mentioned> (‘king’). Doublet of *rīks which is an early borrowing from Proto-Celtic.</seg>
          </etym>
          <re type="paradigm">
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #nom">
              <orth>rekaz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #nom">
              <orth>rekōz, rekōs</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #acc">
              <orth>reką</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #acc">
              <orth>rekanz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #gen">
              <orth>rekas, rikis</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #gen">
              <orth>rekǫ̂</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #dat">
              <orth>rekai</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #dat">
              <orth>rekamaz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #instr">
              <orth>rekō</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #instr">
              <orth>rekamiz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #voc">
              <orth>rek</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #voc">
              <orth>rekōz, rekōs</orth>
            </form>
          </re>
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              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>*rekr</orth>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>folkrekr</orth>
                </form>
              </item>
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