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        <title type="main">Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *skuldiz</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_skuldiz_1</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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      <list type="cognates">
        <item xml:id="cog_ine-x-proto_skel" xml:lang="ine-x-proto" type="etymon">
          <orth>*skel-</orth>
          <def>to sound, resound</def>
        </item>
        <item xml:id="cog_lit_kalte" xml:lang="lit" type="cognate">
          <orth>kaltė̃</orth>
          <def>guilt</def>
        </item>
      </list>
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        <entry xml:id="pgmc_skuldiz_1" type="noun" corresp="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/skuldiz">
          <form type="lemma">
            <orth>skuldiz</orth>
            <pron notation="ipa">ˈskul.diz</pron>
            <form type="runic">
              <orth>ᛊᚲᚢᛚᛞᛁᛉ</orth>
            </form>
          </form>
          <gramGrp>
            <pos>noun</pos>
            <gram type="gender">feminine</gram>
            <gram type="stem">i-stem</gram>
          </gramGrp>
          <sense n="1">
            <def>obligation</def>
          </sense>
          <sense n="2">
            <def>debt</def>
          </sense>
          <sense n="3">
            <def>fault, blame, guilt</def>
          </sense>
          <etym>
            <seg type="p">From Proto-Indo-European *skéltis, from Proto-Indo-European <mentioned xml:lang="ine-x-proto" target="#cog_ine-x-proto_skel"><ref target="#cog_ine-x-proto_skel">*skel-</ref></mentioned> (‘to be obliged, be beholden to, owe, be guilty’), equivalent to Proto-Germanic *skulaną (‘to be obligated, owe’) + *-þiz. Cognate with Lithuanian <mentioned xml:lang="lit" target="#cog_lit_kalte"><ref target="#cog_lit_kalte">kaltė̃</ref></mentioned> (‘guilt’).</seg>
          </etym>
          <re type="paradigm">
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #nom">
              <orth>skuldiz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #nom">
              <orth>skuldīz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #acc">
              <orth>skuldį</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #acc">
              <orth>skuldinz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #gen">
              <orth>skuldīz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #gen">
              <orth>skuldijǫ̂</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #dat">
              <orth>skuldī</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #dat">
              <orth>skuldimaz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #instr">
              <orth>skuldī</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #instr">
              <orth>skuldimiz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #voc">
              <orth>skuldi</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #voc">
              <orth>skuldīz</orth>
            </form>
          </re>
          <re type="descendants">
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              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*skuldi</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Dutch</lang>
                    <orth>skuld, scult</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle Dutch</lang>
                      <orth>schult, schout</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Limburgish</lang>
                        <orth>sjöldj</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*skuldi</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Dutch</lang>
                    <orth>skuld, scult</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle Dutch</lang>
                      <orth>schult, schout</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Dutch</lang>
                        <orth>schuld, schoud</orth>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Berbice Creole Dutch</lang>
                          <orth>skolo</orth>
                        </form>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Indonesian</lang>
                          <orth>kesalahan</orth>
                        </form>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Jersey Dutch</lang>
                          <orth>sxjilt</orth>
                        </form>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Negerhollands</lang>
                          <orth>skuld, skylt, schuild</orth>
                        </form>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*skuldi</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Dutch</lang>
                    <orth>skuld, scult</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle Dutch</lang>
                      <orth>schult, schout</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Dutch</lang>
                        <orth>schuld, schoud</orth>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Afrikaans</lang>
                          <orth>skuld</orth>
                          <form type="descendant">
                            <lang>Sotho</lang>
                            <orth>sekoloto</orth>
                          </form>
                          <form type="descendant">
                            <lang>Tswana</lang>
                            <orth>sekoloto</orth>
                          </form>
                          <form type="descendant">
                            <lang>Zulu</lang>
                            <orth>isikweletu</orth>
                          </form>
                        </form>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*skuldi</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old English</lang>
                    <orth>sċyld, sċyldu</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle English</lang>
                      <orth>schuld, shild</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>English</lang>
                        <orth>shild</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*skuldi</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Frisian</lang>
                    <orth>skeld</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>North Frisian</lang>
                      <orth>schild</orth>
                    </form>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Saterland Frisian</lang>
                      <orth>Skeeld</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*skuldi</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old High German</lang>
                    <orth>skuld, sculd, scult, sculda, sculta</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle High German</lang>
                      <orth>schult, schulde</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Luxembourgish</lang>
                        <orth>Schold</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Yiddish</lang>
                        <orth>שולד (shuld)</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*skuldi</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old High German</lang>
                    <orth>skuld, sculd, scult, sculda, sculta</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle High German</lang>
                      <orth>schult, schulde</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>German</lang>
                        <orth>Schuld</orth>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Esperanto</lang>
                          <orth>ŝuldo</orth>
                        </form>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*skuldi</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Saxon</lang>
                    <orth>skuld, sculd</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle Low German</lang>
                      <orth>schult, schuld, schülde</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Low German</lang>
                        <orth>Schuld</orth>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>German Low German</lang>
                          <orth>Schuld, Schüld</orth>
                        </form>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>skuld</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Danish</lang>
                    <orth>skyld</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Faroese</lang>
                    <orth>skuld</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Icelandic</lang>
                    <orth>skuld</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Norwegian</lang>
                    <orth>skuld, skyld</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Scots</lang>
                    <orth>skuld, sculd, skyld</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>skuld</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Swedish</lang>
                    <orth>skuld, skyld</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Swedish</lang>
                      <orth>skuld, skull</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>Skuld</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Danish</lang>
                    <orth>skyld</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Faroese</lang>
                    <orth>skuld</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Icelandic</lang>
                    <orth>skuld</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Norwegian</lang>
                    <orth>skuld, skyld</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Scots</lang>
                    <orth>skuld, sculd, skyld</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>Skuld</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Swedish</lang>
                    <orth>skuld, skyld</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Swedish</lang>
                      <orth>skuld, skull</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>skyld</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Danish</lang>
                    <orth>skyld</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Faroese</lang>
                    <orth>skuld</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Icelandic</lang>
                    <orth>skuld</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Norwegian</lang>
                    <orth>skuld, skyld</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Scots</lang>
                    <orth>skuld, sculd, skyld</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>skyld</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Swedish</lang>
                    <orth>skuld, skyld</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Swedish</lang>
                      <orth>skuld, skull</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
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