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        <title type="main">Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *wantuz</title>
        <author>Scott K. Shay</author>
      </titleStmt>
      <publicationStmt>
        <publisher>Wardja Press</publisher>
        <date when="2026-10-01"/>
        <idno type="URL">https://protogermanic.org/pgmc_wantuz</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_wendh" xml:lang="ine-x-proto" type="etymon">
          <orth>*wendʰ-</orth>
          <def>to turn, wind, braid</def>
        </item>
        <item xml:id="cog_ine-x-proto_wondhnu" xml:lang="ine-x-proto" type="etymon">
          <orth>*wondʰnú-</orth>
          <def>glove</def>
        </item>
      </list>
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        <entry xml:id="pgmc_wantuz" type="noun" corresp="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/wantuz">
          <form type="lemma">
            <orth>wantuz</orth>
            <pron notation="ipa">ˈwɑn.tuz</pron>
            <form type="runic">
              <orth>ᚹᚨᚾᛏᚢᛉ</orth>
            </form>
          </form>
          <gramGrp>
            <pos>noun</pos>
            <gram type="gender">masculine</gram>
            <gram type="stem">u-stem</gram>
          </gramGrp>
          <sense n="1">
            <def>glove, mitten</def>
          </sense>
          <etym>
            <seg type="p">Likely from a pre-Germanic *wanttuz, presumably from *wantnuz via Kluge's law, from Proto-Indo-European <mentioned xml:lang="ine-x-proto" target="#cog_ine-x-proto_wondhnu"><ref target="#cog_ine-x-proto_wondhnu">*wondʰnú-</ref></mentioned> (‘glove’), from Proto-Indo-European <mentioned xml:lang="ine-x-proto" target="#cog_ine-x-proto_wendh"><ref target="#cog_ine-x-proto_wendh">*wendʰ-</ref></mentioned> (‘to wind, wrap’).</seg>
          </etym>
          <re type="paradigm">
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #nom">
              <orth>wantuz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #nom">
              <orth>wantiwiz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #acc">
              <orth>wantų</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #acc">
              <orth>wantunz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #gen">
              <orth>wantauz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #gen">
              <orth>wantiwǫ̂</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #dat">
              <orth>wantiwi</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #dat">
              <orth>wantumaz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #instr">
              <orth>wantū</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #instr">
              <orth>wantumiz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #voc">
              <orth>wantu</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #voc">
              <orth>wantiwiz</orth>
            </form>
          </re>
          <re type="descendants">
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              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*wantu</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Medieval Latin</lang>
                    <orth>wantus, guantus, gantus</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Italian</lang>
                      <orth>guanto</orth>
                    </form>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Ladin</lang>
                      <orth>guant</orth>
                    </form>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Old High German</lang>
                      <orth>wantus, guantus, vantus, wanta</orth>
                    </form>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Piedmontese</lang>
                      <orth>guant</orth>
                    </form>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Sicilian</lang>
                      <orth>nguantu</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*wantu</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Medieval Latin</lang>
                    <orth>wantus, guantus, gantus</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Iberian</lang>
                      <orth>?</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Portuguese</lang>
                        <orth>guante</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Spanish</lang>
                        <orth>guante</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*wantu</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Medieval Latin</lang>
                    <orth>wantus, guantus, gantus</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Iberian</lang>
                      <orth>?</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Old Leonese</lang>
                        <orth>guante</orth>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Asturian</lang>
                          <orth>guante</orth>
                        </form>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Leonese</lang>
                          <orth>guante</orth>
                        </form>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*wantu</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Medieval Latin</lang>
                    <orth>wantus, guantus, gantus</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Old French</lang>
                      <orth>gant, gaunt</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Middle French</lang>
                        <orth>gant</orth>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>French</lang>
                          <orth>gant</orth>
                        </form>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*wantu</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Medieval Latin</lang>
                    <orth>wantus, guantus, gantus</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Old French</lang>
                      <orth>gant, gaunt</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Old French</lang>
                        <orth>gantelet, gauntlet</orth>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>French</lang>
                          <orth>gauntlet, gantlet</orth>
                        </form>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Spanish</lang>
                          <orth>guantelete</orth>
                        </form>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*wantu</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Medieval Latin</lang>
                    <orth>wantus, guantus, gantus</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Old French</lang>
                      <orth>gant, gaunt</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Old French</lang>
                        <orth>gantelet, gauntlet</orth>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Middle English</lang>
                          <orth>gauntelet, gantelet, gauntlet</orth>
                          <form type="descendant">
                            <lang>English</lang>
                            <orth>gauntlet</orth>
                          </form>
                          <form type="descendant">
                            <lang>Yola</lang>
                            <orth>gauntletès</orth>
                          </form>
                        </form>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*wantu</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Medieval Latin</lang>
                    <orth>wantus, guantus, gantus</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Old Occitan</lang>
                      <orth>gant, gaunt</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Catalan</lang>
                        <orth>guant</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Occitan</lang>
                        <orth>gant</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*wantu</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Dutch</lang>
                    <orth>*want</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle Dutch</lang>
                      <orth>want, wante</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Dutch</lang>
                        <orth>want</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*wantu</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Frisian</lang>
                    <orth>*want, *wont</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Saterland Frisian</lang>
                      <orth>Wonte</orth>
                    </form>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>West Frisian</lang>
                      <orth>want</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*wantu</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Saxon</lang>
                    <orth>*wantu</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle Low German</lang>
                      <orth>*wante, *want</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Low German</lang>
                        <orth>Want</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Middle Low German</lang>
                        <orth>wanteke</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>vǫttr</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Elfdalian</lang>
                    <orth>uott</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Faroese</lang>
                    <orth>vøttur</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Icelandic</lang>
                    <orth>vöttur</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Jamtish</lang>
                    <orth>vott</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>vǫttr</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Danish</lang>
                    <orth>vante</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Norwegian Bokmål</lang>
                      <orth>vante</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Norwegian Nynorsk</lang>
                        <orth>vante</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>vǫttr</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Norwegian</lang>
                    <orth>vott, vott’e, vøtt</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Danish</lang>
                      <orth>vott</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Norwegian Bokmål</lang>
                        <orth>vott</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>vǫttr</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Swedish</lang>
                    <orth>wante, vanter, vatter</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Swedish</lang>
                      <orth>vante</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>vǫntr</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Elfdalian</lang>
                    <orth>uott</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Faroese</lang>
                    <orth>vøttur</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Icelandic</lang>
                    <orth>vöttur</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Jamtish</lang>
                    <orth>vott</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>vǫntr</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Danish</lang>
                    <orth>vante</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Norwegian Bokmål</lang>
                      <orth>vante</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Norwegian Nynorsk</lang>
                        <orth>vante</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>vǫntr</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Norwegian</lang>
                    <orth>vott, vott’e, vøtt</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Danish</lang>
                      <orth>vott</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Norwegian Bokmål</lang>
                        <orth>vott</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>vǫntr</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Swedish</lang>
                    <orth>wante, vanter, vatter</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Swedish</lang>
                      <orth>vante</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-Finnic</lang>
                  <orth>*vant'us</orth>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-Samic</lang>
                  <orth>*fāccë</orth>
                </form>
              </item>
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          </re>
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