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        <title type="main">Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *tawwą</title>
        <author>Scott K. Shay</author>
      </titleStmt>
      <publicationStmt>
        <publisher>Wardja Press</publisher>
        <date when="2026-10-01"/>
        <idno type="URL">https://protogermanic.org/pgmc_tawwą</idno>
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          <monogr>
            <title level="m">Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 11)</title>
            <author>
              <forename>Guus</forename>
              <surname>Kroonen</surname>
            </author>
            <imprint>
              <publisher>Brill</publisher>
              <date>2013</date>
            </imprint>
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        <item xml:id="cog_ine-x-proto_dewh2" xml:lang="ine-x-proto" type="etymon">
          <orth>*dewh₂-</orth>
          <def>to fit</def>
        </item>
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        <entry xml:id="pgmc_tawwa" type="noun" corresp="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/tawwą">
          <form type="lemma">
            <orth>tawwą</orth>
            <pron notation="ipa">ˈtɑw.wɑ̃</pron>
            <form type="runic">
              <orth>ᛏᚨᚹᚨ</orth>
            </form>
          </form>
          <gramGrp>
            <pos>noun</pos>
            <gram type="gender">neuter</gram>
            <gram type="stem">a-stem</gram>
          </gramGrp>
          <sense n="1">
            <def>tool; apparatus; gadget</def>
          </sense>
          <sense n="2">
            <def>equipment; rigging</def>
          </sense>
          <sense n="3">
            <def>rope, line; fiber</def>
          </sense>
          <etym>
            <seg type="p">Possibly from Proto-Indo-European <mentioned xml:lang="ine-x-proto" target="#cog_ine-x-proto_dewh2"><ref target="#cog_ine-x-proto_dewh2">*dewh₂-</ref></mentioned> (‘to tie to; secure’). <bibl corresp="#kroonen2013">Kroonen 2013</bibl> prefers to derive it from *deh₁-.</seg>
          </etym>
          <re type="paradigm">
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #nom">
              <orth>tawwą</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #nom">
              <orth>tawwō</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #acc">
              <orth>tawwą</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #acc">
              <orth>tawwō</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #gen">
              <orth>tawwas, tawwis</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #gen">
              <orth>tawwǫ̂</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #dat">
              <orth>tawwai</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #dat">
              <orth>tawwamaz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #instr">
              <orth>tawwō</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #instr">
              <orth>tawwamiz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #voc">
              <orth>tawwą</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #voc">
              <orth>tawwō</orth>
            </form>
          </re>
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              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old English</lang>
                  <orth>*tawa</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Middle English</lang>
                    <orth>touw</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>English</lang>
                      <orth>tow</orth>
                    </form>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Scots</lang>
                      <orth>touw, tow</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old English</lang>
                  <orth>webtawa</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Middle English</lang>
                    <orth>touw</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>English</lang>
                      <orth>tow</orth>
                    </form>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Scots</lang>
                      <orth>touw, tow</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old English</lang>
                  <orth>*tawe</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Middle English</lang>
                    <orth>touw</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>English</lang>
                      <orth>tow</orth>
                    </form>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Scots</lang>
                      <orth>touw, tow</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old English</lang>
                  <orth>ġetawe</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Middle English</lang>
                    <orth>touw</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>English</lang>
                      <orth>tow</orth>
                    </form>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Scots</lang>
                      <orth>touw, tow</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old English</lang>
                  <orth>*tōw</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Middle English</lang>
                    <orth>touw</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>English</lang>
                      <orth>tow</orth>
                    </form>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Scots</lang>
                      <orth>touw, tow</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Frisian</lang>
                  <orth>tāuwe</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Saterland Frisian</lang>
                    <orth>Tau</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>West Frisian</lang>
                    <orth>tou</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Frisian</lang>
                  <orth>tāuw</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Saterland Frisian</lang>
                    <orth>Tau</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>West Frisian</lang>
                    <orth>tou</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Frisian</lang>
                  <orth>towe</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Saterland Frisian</lang>
                    <orth>Tau</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>West Frisian</lang>
                    <orth>tou</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Frisian</lang>
                  <orth>tau</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Saterland Frisian</lang>
                    <orth>Tau</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>West Frisian</lang>
                    <orth>tou</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Frisian</lang>
                  <orth>tou</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Saterland Frisian</lang>
                    <orth>Tau</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>West Frisian</lang>
                    <orth>tou</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Saxon</lang>
                  <orth>*tō</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Middle Low German</lang>
                    <orth>touw</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>German</lang>
                      <orth>Tau</orth>
                    </form>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>German Low German</lang>
                      <orth>Tau</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Saxon</lang>
                  <orth>tou</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Middle Low German</lang>
                    <orth>touw</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>German</lang>
                      <orth>Tau</orth>
                    </form>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>German Low German</lang>
                      <orth>Tau</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Dutch</lang>
                  <orth>*tou</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Middle Dutch</lang>
                    <orth>touwe</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>West Flemish</lang>
                      <orth>towwe</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Dutch</lang>
                  <orth>*tou</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Middle Dutch</lang>
                    <orth>touwe</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Dutch</lang>
                      <orth>touw</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Afrikaans</lang>
                        <orth>tou</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Berbice Creole Dutch</lang>
                        <orth>tau</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Jersey Dutch</lang>
                        <orth>tāu</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Lokono</lang>
                        <orth>tau</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Negerhollands</lang>
                        <orth>toouw, tou, tau</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Skepi Creole Dutch</lang>
                        <orth>tau</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Warao</lang>
                        <orth>táu, táü, tao</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Dutch</lang>
                  <orth>*tou</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Middle Dutch</lang>
                    <orth>touwe</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Dutch</lang>
                      <orth>touw</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Sranan Tongo</lang>
                        <orth>t'tei</orth>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Aukan</lang>
                          <orth>tetei</orth>
                        </form>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Caribbean Hindustani</lang>
                          <orth>tatai</orth>
                        </form>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Lokono</lang>
                          <orth>tetei</orth>
                        </form>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old High German</lang>
                  <orth>zouwa</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Middle High German</lang>
                    <orth>gezawe, gezouwe</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old High German</lang>
                  <orth>gizawa</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Middle High German</lang>
                    <orth>gezawe, gezouwe</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>tó</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Faroese</lang>
                    <orth>tó</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Icelandic</lang>
                    <orth>tó</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Norwegian</lang>
                    <orth>to</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>tó</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Swedish</lang>
                    <orth>tō</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Swedish</lang>
                      <orth>to</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
            </list>
          </re>
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