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        <title type="main">Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *tehun</title>
        <author>Scott K. Shay</author>
      </titleStmt>
      <publicationStmt>
        <publisher>Wardja Press</publisher>
        <date when="2026-10-01"/>
        <idno type="URL">https://protogermanic.org/pgmc_tehun</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_dekmt" xml:lang="ine-x-proto" type="etymon">
          <orth>*déḱm̥t</orth>
          <def>ten</def>
        </item>
      </list>
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        <entry xml:id="pgmc_tehun" type="numeral" corresp="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/tehun">
          <form type="lemma">
            <orth>tehun</orth>
            <pron notation="ipa">ˈte.xun</pron>
            <form type="runic">
              <orth>ᛏᛖᚺᚢᚾ</orth>
            </form>
          </form>
          <gramGrp>
            <pos>numeral</pos>
          </gramGrp>
          <sense n="1">
            <def>ten</def>
          </sense>
          <etym>
            <seg type="p">From earlier *tehunt, from Proto-Indo-European <mentioned xml:lang="ine-x-proto" target="#cog_ine-x-proto_dekmt"><ref target="#cog_ine-x-proto_dekmt">*déḱm̥t</ref></mentioned> (‘ten’).</seg>
          </etym>
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              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*tehun</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Dutch</lang>
                    <orth>*tian, tēn</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle Dutch</lang>
                      <orth>tien</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Limburgish</lang>
                        <orth>teen, tieën</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Zealandic</lang>
                        <orth>tien</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*tehun</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Dutch</lang>
                    <orth>*tian, tēn</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle Dutch</lang>
                      <orth>tien</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Dutch</lang>
                        <orth>tien</orth>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Afrikaans</lang>
                          <orth>tien</orth>
                        </form>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Aukan</lang>
                          <orth>tin</orth>
                        </form>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Berbice Creole Dutch</lang>
                          <orth>tin</orth>
                        </form>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Jersey Dutch</lang>
                          <orth>tîn</orth>
                        </form>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Negerhollands</lang>
                          <orth>tien, tin</orth>
                        </form>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*tehun</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old English</lang>
                    <orth>tīen, tēn, tȳn, tēne, tēa, tīn</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle English</lang>
                      <orth>ten, tene, tenne, tien</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>English</lang>
                        <orth>ten</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Scots</lang>
                        <orth>ten</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Yola</lang>
                        <orth>dhen</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*tehun</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Frisian</lang>
                    <orth>tiān, tēne, tīne</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>North Frisian</lang>
                      <orth>?</orth>
                    </form>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Saterland Frisian</lang>
                      <orth>tjoon</orth>
                    </form>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>West Frisian</lang>
                      <orth>tsien</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*tehun</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old High German</lang>
                    <orth>zehan</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle High German</lang>
                      <orth>zëhen, zēn</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Central Franconian</lang>
                        <orth>zehn</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Cimbrian</lang>
                        <orth>sègane, zene</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>German</lang>
                        <orth>zehn</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Luxembourgish</lang>
                        <orth>zéng</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Yiddish</lang>
                        <orth>צען (tsen)</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*tehun</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Saxon</lang>
                    <orth>tehan, tehin, tian, tein</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle Low German</lang>
                      <orth>tehen, tein, tēn, tīgen, tīn, tīen</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Plautdietsch</lang>
                        <orth>tieen</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*tehun</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Saxon</lang>
                    <orth>tehan, tehin, tian, tein</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle Low German</lang>
                      <orth>tehen, tein, tēn, tīgen, tīn, tīen</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Low German</lang>
                        <orth>teihn, tein, tehn, tien</orth>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>German Low German</lang>
                          <orth>teihn, tiehn</orth>
                        </form>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Westphalian</lang>
                          <orth>?</orth>
                        </form>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>tíu</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Faroese</lang>
                    <orth>tíggju</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Gutnish</lang>
                    <orth>tei, teiå, teiu</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Icelandic</lang>
                    <orth>tíu</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Norn</lang>
                    <orth>ti</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Norwegian</lang>
                    <orth>ti</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>tíu</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Danish</lang>
                    <orth>ti</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Danish</lang>
                      <orth>ti</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>tíu</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Swedish</lang>
                    <orth>tīo, tīu</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Swedish</lang>
                      <orth>tio</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Gothic</lang>
                  <orth>𐍄𐌰𐌹𐌷𐌿𐌽 (taihun)</orth>
                </form>
              </item>
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