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        <title type="main">Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *walakuzjǭ</title>
        <author>Scott K. Shay</author>
      </titleStmt>
      <publicationStmt>
        <publisher>Wardja Press</publisher>
        <date when="2026-10-02"/>
        <idno type="URL">https://protogermanic.org/pgmc_walakuzjǭ</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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        <entry xml:id="pgmc_walakuzjo" type="noun" corresp="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/walakuzjǭ">
          <form type="lemma">
            <orth>walakuzjǭ</orth>
            <pron notation="ipa">ˈwɑ.lɑ.ˌkuz.jɔ̃ː</pron>
            <form type="runic">
              <orth>ᚹᚨᛚᚨᚲᚢᛉᛃᛟ</orth>
            </form>
          </form>
          <gramGrp>
            <pos>noun</pos>
            <gram type="gender">feminine</gram>
            <gram type="stem">ōn-stem</gram>
          </gramGrp>
          <sense n="1">
            <def>valkyrie, literally "chooser of the slain"</def>
          </sense>
          <etym>
            <seg type="p">From *walaz (‘(battle) wound’) + *keusaną (‘choose, decide’) + *-jǭ (“-er”, feminine agent noun suffix).</seg>
          </etym>
          <re type="paradigm">
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #nom">
              <orth>walakuzjǭ</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #nom">
              <orth>walakuzjōniz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #acc">
              <orth>walakuzjōnų</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #acc">
              <orth>walakuzjōnunz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #gen">
              <orth>walakuzjōniz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #gen">
              <orth>walakuzjōnǫ̂</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #dat">
              <orth>walakuzjōni</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #dat">
              <orth>walakuzjōmaz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #instr">
              <orth>walakuzjōnē</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #instr">
              <orth>walakuzjōmiz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #voc">
              <orth>walakuzjǭ</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #voc">
              <orth>walakuzjōniz</orth>
            </form>
          </re>
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                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*walakuʀjā</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old English</lang>
                    <orth>wælcyrġe, uualcyrġe, wælcyriġe, walcrigge, walcyrġe, wælcerie, wælcyrie, wælkyrie</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle English</lang>
                      <orth>walkirie, walkyrie</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>valkyrja</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Catalan</lang>
                    <orth>valquíria</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Danish</lang>
                    <orth>valkyrie</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>English</lang>
                    <orth>valkyrie</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Faroese</lang>
                    <orth>valkyrja</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>French</lang>
                    <orth>valkyrie</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Icelandic</lang>
                    <orth>valkyrja</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Low German</lang>
                    <orth>walköre</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Norwegian Bokmål</lang>
                    <orth>valkyrje</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Norwegian Nynorsk</lang>
                    <orth>valkyrja, valkyrje, valkyrju</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Russian</lang>
                    <orth>валькирия (valʹkirija)</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Spanish</lang>
                    <orth>valquiria</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Swedish</lang>
                    <orth>valkyria</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>valkyrja</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>German</lang>
                    <orth>Walküre</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Dutch</lang>
                      <orth>Walkure</orth>
                    </form>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Hungarian</lang>
                      <orth>valkűr</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
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