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        <title type="main">Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *wlitiz</title>
        <author>Scott K. Shay</author>
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      <publicationStmt>
        <publisher>Wardja Press</publisher>
        <date when="2026-10-02"/>
        <idno type="URL">https://protogermanic.org/pgmc_wlitiz</idno>
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        <item xml:id="cog_lat_vultus" xml:lang="lat" type="cognate">
          <orth>vultus</orth>
          <def>feature, appearance, visage, aspect, look</def>
        </item>
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        <entry xml:id="pgmc_wlitiz" type="noun" corresp="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/wlitiz">
          <form type="lemma">
            <orth>wlitiz</orth>
            <pron notation="ipa">ˈwli.tiz</pron>
            <form type="runic">
              <orth>ᚹᛚᛁᛏᛁᛉ</orth>
            </form>
          </form>
          <gramGrp>
            <pos>noun</pos>
            <gram type="gender">masculine</gram>
            <gram type="stem">i-stem</gram>
          </gramGrp>
          <sense n="1">
            <def>sight, appearance</def>
          </sense>
          <sense n="2">
            <def>countenance, face</def>
          </sense>
          <sense n="3">
            <def>look, aspect, blee</def>
          </sense>
          <etym>
            <seg type="p">From Proto-Indo-European *wél-ti-s ~ *wl̥-téy-s, from *wel- (‘to see’) + *-tis. Cognate with Latin <mentioned xml:lang="lat" target="#cog_lat_vultus"><ref target="#cog_lat_vultus">vultus</ref></mentioned> (‘feature, appearance, visage, aspect, look’), Old Armenian գեղ (geł). Compare *wulþuz (‘glory’). By synchronic analysis, a nominal formation from *wlītaną (‘to see, look’).</seg>
          </etym>
          <re type="paradigm">
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #nom">
              <orth>wlitiz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #nom">
              <orth>wlitīz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #acc">
              <orth>wlitį</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #acc">
              <orth>wlitinz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #gen">
              <orth>wlitīz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #gen">
              <orth>wlitjǫ̂</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #dat">
              <orth>wlitī</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #dat">
              <orth>wlitimaz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #instr">
              <orth>wlitī</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #instr">
              <orth>wlitimiz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #voc">
              <orth>wliti</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #voc">
              <orth>wlitīz</orth>
            </form>
          </re>
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              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*wliti</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Frisian</lang>
                    <orth>wlite</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Saxon</lang>
                    <orth>wliti</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*wliti</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old English</lang>
                    <orth>wlite, wlitu</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle English</lang>
                      <orth>wlite</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>litr</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Faroese</lang>
                    <orth>litur</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Icelandic</lang>
                    <orth>litur</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Norwegian Bokmål</lang>
                    <orth>let</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Norwegian Nynorsk</lang>
                    <orth>let, lit</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>litr</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Danish</lang>
                    <orth>lyt</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Danish</lang>
                      <orth>lød</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Norwegian Bokmål</lang>
                        <orth>lød</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>litr</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old English</lang>
                    <orth>lit</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle English</lang>
                      <orth>lit, litte</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>English</lang>
                        <orth>lit</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Scots</lang>
                        <orth>lit, litt</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>litr</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Swedish</lang>
                    <orth>liter</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Swedish</lang>
                      <orth>let, lit</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Gothic</lang>
                  <orth>𐍅𐌻𐌹𐍄𐍃 (wlits)</orth>
                </form>
              </item>
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