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        <title type="main">Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *wrēþuz</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_wrēþuz</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_wreto" xml:lang="ine-x-proto" type="etymon">
          <orth>*wrēto-</orth>
          <def>multitude, crowd, troop, company</def>
        </item>
        <item xml:id="cog_san_vrata" xml:lang="san" type="cognate">
          <orth>व्रात</orth>
          <form type="translit">
            <orth>vrā́ta</orth>
          </form>
          <def>crowd, troop, company</def>
        </item>
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        <entry xml:id="pgmc_wrethuz" type="noun" corresp="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/wrēþuz">
          <form type="lemma">
            <orth>wrēþuz</orth>
            <pron notation="ipa">ˈwrɛː.θuz</pron>
            <form type="runic">
              <orth>ᚹᚱᛖᚦᚢᛉ</orth>
            </form>
          </form>
          <gramGrp>
            <pos>noun</pos>
            <gram type="gender">masculine</gram>
            <gram type="stem">u-stem</gram>
          </gramGrp>
          <sense n="1">
            <def>herd, troop, flock</def>
          </sense>
          <etym>
            <seg type="p">From Proto-Indo-European <mentioned xml:lang="ine-x-proto" target="#cog_ine-x-proto_wreto"><ref target="#cog_ine-x-proto_wreto">*wrēto-</ref></mentioned> (‘multitude, crowd, troop, company’), from Proto-Indo-European *wer-, *wrē- (‘to string, put in a row’). Cognate with Sanskrit <mentioned xml:lang="san" target="#cog_san_vrata"><ref target="#cog_san_vrata">व्रात</ref></mentioned> (vrā́ta, ‘crowd, troop, company’).</seg>
          </etym>
          <re type="paradigm">
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #nom">
              <orth>wrēþuz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #nom">
              <orth>wrēþiwiz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #acc">
              <orth>wrēþų</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #acc">
              <orth>wrēþunz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #gen">
              <orth>wrēþauz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #gen">
              <orth>wrēþiwǫ̂</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #dat">
              <orth>wrēþiwi</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #dat">
              <orth>wrēþumaz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #instr">
              <orth>wrēþū</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #instr">
              <orth>wrēþumiz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #voc">
              <orth>wrēþu</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #voc">
              <orth>wrēþiwiz</orth>
            </form>
          </re>
          <re type="descendants">
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              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old English</lang>
                  <orth>wrǣþ</orth>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old English</lang>
                  <orth>wrǣd</orth>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>*vráðr</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Danish</lang>
                    <orth>vrāth</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>*vráði</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Danish</lang>
                    <orth>vrāth</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>ráði</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Danish</lang>
                    <orth>vrāth</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Gothic</lang>
                  <orth>𐍅𐍂𐌹𐌸𐌿𐍃 (wriþus)</orth>
                </form>
              </item>
            </list>
          </re>
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