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        <title type="main">Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *spellą</title>
        <author>Scott K. Shay</author>
      </titleStmt>
      <publicationStmt>
        <publisher>Wardja Press</publisher>
        <date when="2026-10-03"/>
        <idno type="URL">https://protogermanic.org/pgmc_spellą</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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        <item xml:id="cog_ine-x-proto_h_x14" xml:lang="ine-x-proto" type="etymon">
          <orth>*spel</orth>
          <form type="translit">
            <orth>H</orth>
          </form>
        </item>
      </list>
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        <entry xml:id="pgmc_spella" type="noun" corresp="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/spellą">
          <form type="lemma">
            <orth>spellą</orth>
            <pron notation="ipa">ˈspel.lɑ̃</pron>
            <form type="runic">
              <orth>ᛊᛈᛖᛚᚨ</orth>
            </form>
          </form>
          <gramGrp>
            <pos>noun</pos>
            <gram type="gender">neuter</gram>
            <gram type="stem">a-stem</gram>
          </gramGrp>
          <sense n="1">
            <def>news, message</def>
          </sense>
          <sense n="2">
            <def>tale, story, legend</def>
          </sense>
          <etym>
            <seg type="p">(SS: possibly *skʷetló-, see Kroonen 2017). From Proto-Indo-European <mentioned xml:lang="ine-x-proto" target="#cog_ine-x-proto_h_x14"><ref target="#cog_ine-x-proto_h_x14">*spel</ref></mentioned> (H)-o-, ultimately from *(s)pelH- (‘to tell’). Common origin and cognate with Old Armenian առասպել (aṙaspel, ‘legend, proverb, riddle’). Unrelated to *spil (‘game, amusement’).</seg>
          </etym>
          <re type="paradigm">
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #nom">
              <orth>spellą</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #nom">
              <orth>spellō</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #acc">
              <orth>spellą</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #acc">
              <orth>spellō</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #gen">
              <orth>spellas, spillis</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #gen">
              <orth>spellǫ̂</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #dat">
              <orth>spellai</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #dat">
              <orth>spellamaz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #instr">
              <orth>spellō</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #instr">
              <orth>spellamiz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #voc">
              <orth>spellą</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #voc">
              <orth>spellō</orth>
            </form>
          </re>
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                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*spell</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old High German</lang>
                    <orth>spel</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Saxon</lang>
                    <orth>spel</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*spell</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Dutch</lang>
                    <orth>spel</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle Dutch</lang>
                      <orth>spel</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*spell</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old English</lang>
                    <orth>spell, spel</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle English</lang>
                      <orth>spell, spel</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>English</lang>
                        <orth>spell</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>spjall</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Icelandic</lang>
                    <orth>spjall</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>spjall</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Swedish</lang>
                    <orth>spiäl</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Swedish</lang>
                      <orth>spjäll</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Gothic</lang>
                  <orth>𐍃𐍀𐌹𐌻𐌻 (spill)</orth>
                </form>
              </item>
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