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        <title type="main">Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *weraldiz</title>
        <author>Scott K. Shay</author>
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      <publicationStmt>
        <publisher>Wardja Press</publisher>
        <date when="2026-10-01"/>
        <idno type="URL">https://protogermanic.org/pgmc_weraldiz</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_weraldiz" type="noun" corresp="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/weraldiz">
          <form type="lemma">
            <orth>weraldiz</orth>
            <pron notation="ipa">ˈwe.rɑl.diz</pron>
            <form type="runic">
              <orth>ᚹᛖᚱᚨᛚᛞᛁᛉ</orth>
            </form>
          </form>
          <gramGrp>
            <pos>noun</pos>
            <gram type="gender">feminine</gram>
            <gram type="stem">i-stem</gram>
          </gramGrp>
          <sense n="1">
            <def>lifetime, worldly existence</def>
          </sense>
          <sense n="2">
            <def>mankind</def>
          </sense>
          <sense n="3">
            <def>world</def>
          </sense>
          <etym>
            <seg type="p">From *weraz (‘man’) + *aldiz (‘age, lifetime’), literally “era of man”.</seg>
          </etym>
          <re type="paradigm">
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #nom">
              <orth>weraldiz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #nom">
              <orth>weraldīz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #acc">
              <orth>weraldį</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #acc">
              <orth>weraldinz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #gen">
              <orth>weraldīz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #gen">
              <orth>weraldijǫ̂</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #dat">
              <orth>weraldī</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #dat">
              <orth>weraldimaz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #instr">
              <orth>weraldī</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #instr">
              <orth>weraldimiz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #voc">
              <orth>weraldi</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #voc">
              <orth>weraldīz</orth>
            </form>
          </re>
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                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*weraldi</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Dutch</lang>
                    <orth>werilt, werolt</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle Dutch</lang>
                      <orth>wērelt</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Limburgish</lang>
                        <orth>wereld</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*weraldi</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Dutch</lang>
                    <orth>werilt, werolt</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle Dutch</lang>
                      <orth>wērelt</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Dutch</lang>
                        <orth>wereld</orth>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Afrikaans</lang>
                          <orth>wêreld</orth>
                        </form>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*weraldi</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old English</lang>
                    <orth>weorold, weorld, weoruld, woruld, worold, world, wiorld, wyrold, wuruld, wiarald</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle English</lang>
                      <orth>world, weoreld, werld, wordle, woreld, worild, worlde, woruld, werelld, weorelld</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>English</lang>
                        <orth>world</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Scots</lang>
                        <orth>warld</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*weraldi</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Frisian</lang>
                    <orth>warld, wrald</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>North Frisian</lang>
                      <orth>?</orth>
                    </form>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Saterland Frisian</lang>
                      <orth>Wareld</orth>
                    </form>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>West Frisian</lang>
                      <orth>wrâld</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*weraldi</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old High German</lang>
                    <orth>wëralt</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle High German</lang>
                      <orth>wërlt, wëlt</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Alemannic German</lang>
                        <orth>Wält</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Bavarian</lang>
                        <orth>Wejt, Wöd, Wölt</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Central Franconian</lang>
                        <orth>?</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>German</lang>
                        <orth>Welt</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Luxembourgish</lang>
                        <orth>Welt</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Rhine Franconian</lang>
                        <orth>?</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Vilamovian</lang>
                        <orth>wełt</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Yiddish</lang>
                        <orth>וועלט (velt)</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*weraldi</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Saxon</lang>
                    <orth>werold</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle Low German</lang>
                      <orth>werlt, werlde</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Dutch Low Saxon</lang>
                        <orth>wearld</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Plautdietsch</lang>
                        <orth>Welt</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*weraldi</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Saxon</lang>
                    <orth>werold</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle Low German</lang>
                      <orth>werlt, werlde</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Low German</lang>
                        <orth>Welt, Werld</orth>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>German Low German</lang>
                          <orth>Wereld, Welt</orth>
                        </form>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>verǫld</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Elfdalian</lang>
                    <orth>wärd</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Faroese</lang>
                    <orth>verøld, vørild, verð</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Gutnish</lang>
                    <orth>värd</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Icelandic</lang>
                    <orth>veröld</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Norn</lang>
                    <orth>vrildan</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>verǫld</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Norwegian Nynorsk</lang>
                    <orth>verd</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Norwegian Bokmål</lang>
                      <orth>verd</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>verǫld</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Danish</lang>
                    <orth>wæræld</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Scanian</lang>
                      <orth>værlð</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>verǫld</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Danish</lang>
                    <orth>wæræld</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Danish</lang>
                      <orth>verden</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Norwegian Bokmål</lang>
                        <orth>verden</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>verǫld</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Swedish</lang>
                    <orth>væruld, værald, værild, værld</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Swedish</lang>
                      <orth>värld</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
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