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        <title type="main">Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *sailą</title>
        <author>Scott K. Shay</author>
      </titleStmt>
      <publicationStmt>
        <publisher>Wardja Press</publisher>
        <date when="2026-10-01"/>
        <idno type="URL">https://protogermanic.org/pgmc_sailą</idno>
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        <item xml:id="cog_bsl-x-proto_sei_la" xml:lang="bsl-x-proto" type="cognate">
          <orth>*séiˀlāˀ</orth>
          <def>soul</def>
        </item>
        <item xml:id="cog_hit_kaka" xml:lang="hit" type="cognate">
          <orth>[script needed]</orth>
          <form type="translit">
            <orth>kaka-</orth>
          </form>
          <def>tooth</def>
        </item>
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        <entry xml:id="pgmc_saila" type="noun" corresp="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/sailą">
          <form type="lemma">
            <orth>sailą</orth>
            <pron notation="ipa">ˈsɑi̯.lɑ̃</pron>
            <form type="runic">
              <orth>ᛊᚨᛁᛚᚨ</orth>
            </form>
          </form>
          <gramGrp>
            <pos>noun</pos>
            <gram type="gender">neuter</gram>
            <gram type="stem">a-stem</gram>
          </gramGrp>
          <sense n="1">
            <def>rope; cord</def>
          </sense>
          <etym>
            <seg type="p">(SS: see Kroonen 2017, &lt; *sh₂ey-tló- From Proto-Indo-European *sh₂éy-ōl ~ *sh₂i-l-és, from *sh₂ey- (‘to bind, fetter’). Cognate with Hittite <mentioned xml:lang="hit" target="#cog_hit_kaka"><ref target="#cog_hit_kaka">[script needed]</ref></mentioned> (iš-hi-ia-al, ‘band’), and possibly Proto-Balto-Slavic <mentioned xml:lang="bsl-x-proto" target="#cog_bsl-x-proto_sei_la"><ref target="#cog_bsl-x-proto_sei_la">*séiˀlāˀ</ref></mentioned> (‘soul’).</seg>
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          <re type="paradigm">
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #nom">
              <orth>sailą</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #nom">
              <orth>sailō</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #acc">
              <orth>sailą</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #acc">
              <orth>sailō</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #gen">
              <orth>sailas, sailis</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #gen">
              <orth>sailǫ̂</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #dat">
              <orth>sailai</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #dat">
              <orth>sailamaz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #instr">
              <orth>sailō</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #instr">
              <orth>sailamiz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #voc">
              <orth>sailą</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #voc">
              <orth>sailō</orth>
            </form>
          </re>
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                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*sail</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Dutch</lang>
                    <orth>*sēl</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle Dutch</lang>
                      <orth>sêel</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Dutch</lang>
                        <orth>zeel</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*sail</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old English</lang>
                    <orth>sāl</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle English</lang>
                      <orth>sal, sole, soole</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>English</lang>
                        <orth>sole</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Scots</lang>
                        <orth>sale, saill, saile, seill, seale</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*sail</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Frisian</lang>
                    <orth>sēl, sēle</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Saterland Frisian</lang>
                      <orth>Seel</orth>
                    </form>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>West Frisian</lang>
                      <orth>seel</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*sail</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old High German</lang>
                    <orth>seil</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle High German</lang>
                      <orth>seil</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>German</lang>
                        <orth>Seil</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Luxembourgish</lang>
                        <orth>Seel</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*sail</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Saxon</lang>
                    <orth>sēl</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle Low German</lang>
                      <orth>sêl, seil</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>German Low German</lang>
                        <orth>Seel</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>seil</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Icelandic</lang>
                    <orth>seil</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
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