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        <title type="main">Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *seldanē</title>
        <author>Scott K. Shay</author>
      </titleStmt>
      <publicationStmt>
        <publisher>Wardja Press</publisher>
        <date when="2026-10-02"/>
        <idno type="URL">https://protogermanic.org/pgmc_seldanē</idno>
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        <entry xml:id="pgmc_seldane" type="adverb" corresp="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/seldanē">
          <form type="lemma">
            <orth>seldanē</orth>
            <pron notation="ipa">ˈsel.dɑ.nɛː</pron>
            <form type="runic">
              <orth>ᛊᛖᛚᛞᚨᚾᛖ</orth>
            </form>
          </form>
          <gramGrp>
            <pos>adverb</pos>
          </gramGrp>
          <sense n="1">
            <def>seldom, rarely</def>
          </sense>
          <etym>
            <seg type="p">From unattested *seldaz (‘rare’) + *-anē.</seg>
          </etym>
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                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*seldanā</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Dutch</lang>
                    <orth>*seldan</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle Dutch</lang>
                      <orth>selden</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Dutch</lang>
                        <orth>zelden</orth>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Afrikaans</lang>
                          <orth>selde</orth>
                        </form>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Negerhollands</lang>
                          <orth>selden</orth>
                        </form>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*seldanā</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old English</lang>
                    <orth>seldan, seldum</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle English</lang>
                      <orth>selden, seilden, seldom</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>English</lang>
                        <orth>seldom</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Scots</lang>
                        <orth>seld, seldin, seendil</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*seldanā</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Frisian</lang>
                    <orth>sielden</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Saterland Frisian</lang>
                      <orth>säilden</orth>
                    </form>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>West Frisian</lang>
                      <orth>komselden</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*seldanā</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old High German</lang>
                    <orth>seltan, *seldan</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle High German</lang>
                      <orth>selten, selden</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Alemannic German</lang>
                        <orth>selte</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Central Franconian</lang>
                        <orth>säle, seale, selle, selde</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>German</lang>
                        <orth>selten</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Luxembourgish</lang>
                        <orth>sielen</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Yiddish</lang>
                        <orth>זעלטן (zeltn)</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*seldanā</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Saxon</lang>
                    <orth>seldan</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle Low German</lang>
                      <orth>selden</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>sjaldan</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Faroese</lang>
                    <orth>sjáldan, sjaldan</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Icelandic</lang>
                    <orth>sjaldan</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Norwegian Nynorsk</lang>
                    <orth>sjeldan, sjalda, sjølda, sjeldom</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>sjaldan</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Danish</lang>
                    <orth>siældæn</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Danish</lang>
                      <orth>sjælden</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Norwegian Bokmål</lang>
                        <orth>sjelden</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>sjaldan</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Swedish</lang>
                    <orth>siäldan, säldan, siällan</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Swedish</lang>
                      <orth>sällan</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
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