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        <title type="main">Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *stapulaz</title>
        <author>Scott K. Shay</author>
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      <publicationStmt>
        <publisher>Wardja Press</publisher>
        <date when="2026-10-02"/>
        <idno type="URL">https://protogermanic.org/pgmc_stapulaz</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_stebh" xml:lang="ine-x-proto" type="etymon">
          <orth>*stebʰ-</orth>
          <def>to stand still, harden, support</def>
        </item>
      </list>
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        <entry xml:id="pgmc_stapulaz" type="noun" corresp="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/stapulaz">
          <form type="lemma">
            <orth>stapulaz</orth>
            <pron notation="ipa">ˈstɑ.pu.lɑz</pron>
            <form type="runic">
              <orth>ᛊᛏᚨᛈᚢᛚᚨᛉ</orth>
            </form>
          </form>
          <gramGrp>
            <pos>noun</pos>
            <gram type="gender">masculine</gram>
            <gram type="stem">a-stem</gram>
          </gramGrp>
          <sense n="1">
            <def>pillar, post</def>
          </sense>
          <sense n="2">
            <def>basis, foundation</def>
          </sense>
          <etym>
            <seg type="p">Related to *stapiz (‘a step’). Note semantic similarities to Proto-Indo-European <mentioned xml:lang="ine-x-proto" target="#cog_ine-x-proto_stebh"><ref target="#cog_ine-x-proto_stebh">*stebʰ-</ref></mentioned> (‘stem, post’), whence *stabaz (‘staff, stick’), though the consonant finals are difficult to reconcile.</seg>
          </etym>
          <re type="paradigm">
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #nom">
              <orth>stapulaz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #nom">
              <orth>stapulōz, stapulōs</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #acc">
              <orth>stapulą</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #acc">
              <orth>stapulanz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #gen">
              <orth>stapulas, stapulis</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #gen">
              <orth>stapulǫ̂</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #dat">
              <orth>stapulai</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #dat">
              <orth>stapulamaz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #instr">
              <orth>stapulō</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #instr">
              <orth>stapulamiz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #voc">
              <orth>stapul</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #voc">
              <orth>stapulōz, stapulōs</orth>
            </form>
          </re>
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              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*stapul</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Late Latin</lang>
                    <orth>stapula</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Old French</lang>
                      <orth>estaple</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Italian</lang>
                        <orth>stapula</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*stapul</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Late Latin</lang>
                    <orth>stapula</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Old French</lang>
                      <orth>estaple</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Anglo-Norman</lang>
                        <orth>staple</orth>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Middle English</lang>
                          <orth>staple, stapel, stapil, stapul</orth>
                          <form type="descendant">
                            <lang>English</lang>
                            <orth>staple</orth>
                          </form>
                          <form type="descendant">
                            <lang>Scots</lang>
                            <orth>stapill, staple, steple</orth>
                          </form>
                        </form>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*stapul</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Late Latin</lang>
                    <orth>stapula</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Old French</lang>
                      <orth>estaple</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Middle French</lang>
                        <orth>estappe</orth>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>French</lang>
                          <orth>étape</orth>
                        </form>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*stapul</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Dutch</lang>
                    <orth>stapul, stapal</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle Dutch</lang>
                      <orth>stāpel</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Dutch</lang>
                        <orth>stapel</orth>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Afrikaans</lang>
                          <orth>stapel</orth>
                        </form>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*stapul</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old English</lang>
                    <orth>stapol, stapel</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle English</lang>
                      <orth>stapel, stapil, stapille, staple, stapul, stable</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>English</lang>
                        <orth>staple</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Scots</lang>
                        <orth>steeple</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*stapul</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Frisian</lang>
                    <orth>stapul</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Saterland Frisian</lang>
                      <orth>Stoapel</orth>
                    </form>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>West Frisian</lang>
                      <orth>steapel</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*stapul</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old High German</lang>
                    <orth>staffal, stapfal</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle High German</lang>
                      <orth>staffel, stapfel</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>German</lang>
                        <orth>Staffel</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*stapul</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Saxon</lang>
                    <orth>stapol</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle Low German</lang>
                      <orth>stapel</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>German</lang>
                        <orth>Stapel</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>German Low German</lang>
                        <orth>Stapel</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Yiddish</lang>
                        <orth>שטאַפּל (shtapl)</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>stǫpull</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Faroese</lang>
                    <orth>støpul</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Icelandic</lang>
                    <orth>stöpull</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Norwegian Nynorsk</lang>
                    <orth>stopul</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Scanian</lang>
                    <orth>stabel</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>stǫpull</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Danish</lang>
                    <orth>stapæl</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Danish</lang>
                      <orth>stabel, stapel, stavl</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Icelandic</lang>
                        <orth>stafli</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Norwegian Bokmål</lang>
                        <orth>stabel</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Norwegian Nynorsk</lang>
                        <orth>stabel</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>stǫpull</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Swedish</lang>
                    <orth>stapul</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Swedish</lang>
                      <orth>stapel</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Finnish</lang>
                        <orth>taapeli</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-Finnic</lang>
                  <orth>*sapilas</orth>
                </form>
              </item>
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          </re>
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