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        <title type="main">Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *slagjǭ</title>
        <author>Scott K. Shay</author>
      </titleStmt>
      <publicationStmt>
        <publisher>Wardja Press</publisher>
        <date when="2026-10-01"/>
        <idno type="URL">https://protogermanic.org/pgmc_slagjǭ</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_slak" xml:lang="ine-x-proto" type="etymon">
          <orth>*slak-</orth>
          <def>to hit, strike</def>
        </item>
      </list>
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        <entry xml:id="pgmc_slagjo" type="noun" corresp="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/slagjǭ">
          <form type="lemma">
            <orth>slagjǭ</orth>
            <pron notation="ipa">ˈslɑɣ.jɔ̃ː</pron>
            <form type="runic">
              <orth>ᛊᛚᚨᚷᛃᛟ</orth>
            </form>
          </form>
          <gramGrp>
            <pos>noun</pos>
            <gram type="gender">feminine</gram>
            <gram type="stem">ōn-stem</gram>
          </gramGrp>
          <sense n="1">
            <def>sledge; mallet; hammer</def>
          </sense>
          <etym>
            <seg type="p">From the root of *slahaną + *-jǭ, perhaps onomatopoeic late Proto-Indo-European <mentioned xml:lang="ine-x-proto" target="#cog_ine-x-proto_slak"><ref target="#cog_ine-x-proto_slak">*slak-</ref></mentioned> (‘to hit, strike’).</seg>
          </etym>
          <re type="paradigm">
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #nom">
              <orth>slagjǭ</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #nom">
              <orth>slagjōniz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #acc">
              <orth>slagjōnų</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #acc">
              <orth>slagjōnunz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #gen">
              <orth>slagjōniz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #gen">
              <orth>slagjōnǫ̂</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #dat">
              <orth>slagjōni</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #dat">
              <orth>slagjōmaz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #instr">
              <orth>slagjōnē</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #instr">
              <orth>slagjōmiz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #voc">
              <orth>slagjǭ</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #voc">
              <orth>slagjōniz</orth>
            </form>
          </re>
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              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*slaggjā</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old High German</lang>
                    <orth>slegil</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*slaggjā</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Dutch</lang>
                    <orth>*slegga</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle Dutch</lang>
                      <orth>slegge</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Dutch</lang>
                        <orth>slegge, sleg</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*slaggjā</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old English</lang>
                    <orth>sleċġ, *slaggju, *slagjō</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle English</lang>
                      <orth>slegge</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>English</lang>
                        <orth>sledge</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Scots</lang>
                        <orth>sleg, sledge</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*slaggjā</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Saxon</lang>
                    <orth>*slaggia, *slaggea</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle Low German</lang>
                      <orth>slage, slagen</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*slaggju</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old High German</lang>
                    <orth>slegil</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*slaggju</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Dutch</lang>
                    <orth>*slegga</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle Dutch</lang>
                      <orth>slegge</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Dutch</lang>
                        <orth>slegge, sleg</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*slaggju</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old English</lang>
                    <orth>sleċġ, *slaggju, *slagjō</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle English</lang>
                      <orth>slegge</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>English</lang>
                        <orth>sledge</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Scots</lang>
                        <orth>sleg, sledge</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*slaggju</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Saxon</lang>
                    <orth>*slaggia, *slaggea</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle Low German</lang>
                      <orth>slage, slagen</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>sleggja</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Danish</lang>
                    <orth>slægge</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Icelandic</lang>
                    <orth>sleggja</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Norwegian</lang>
                    <orth>sleggje, slegge</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>sleggja</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Swedish</lang>
                    <orth>slæggia</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Swedish</lang>
                      <orth>slägga</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Finnish</lang>
                        <orth>leka</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
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