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        <title type="main">Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *þelą</title>
        <author>Scott K. Shay</author>
      </titleStmt>
      <publicationStmt>
        <publisher>Wardja Press</publisher>
        <date when="2026-10-02"/>
        <idno type="URL">https://protogermanic.org/pgmc_þelą</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_lat_tellus" xml:lang="lat" type="cognate">
          <orth>tellūs</orth>
          <def>earth; world</def>
        </item>
        <item xml:id="cog_san_tala" xml:lang="san" type="cognate">
          <orth>तल</orth>
          <form type="translit">
            <orth>tála</orth>
          </form>
          <def>surface, sloor</def>
        </item>
        <item xml:id="cog_sga_talam" xml:lang="sga" type="cognate">
          <orth>talam</orth>
          <def>earth, dry land</def>
        </item>
        <item xml:id="cog_sla-x-proto_t_lo" xml:lang="sla-x-proto" type="cognate">
          <orth>*tьlò</orth>
          <def>ground, bottom</def>
        </item>
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        <entry xml:id="pgmc_thela" type="noun" corresp="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/þelą">
          <form type="lemma">
            <orth>þelą</orth>
            <pron notation="ipa">ˈθe.lɑ̃</pron>
            <form type="runic">
              <orth>ᚦᛖᛚᚨ</orth>
            </form>
          </form>
          <gramGrp>
            <pos>noun</pos>
            <gram type="gender">neuter</gram>
            <gram type="stem">a-stem</gram>
          </gramGrp>
          <sense n="1">
            <def>floor; deal (plank)</def>
          </sense>
          <etym>
            <seg type="p">Likely from Proto-Indo-European *telh₂-o-s, from *telh₂- (‘flat surface, ground; board, plank’). Compare Proto-Slavic <mentioned xml:lang="sla-x-proto" target="#cog_sla-x-proto_t_lo"><ref target="#cog_sla-x-proto_t_lo">*tьlò</ref></mentioned> (‘ground, bottom’), Sanskrit <mentioned xml:lang="san" target="#cog_san_tala"><ref target="#cog_san_tala">तल</ref></mentioned> (tála, ‘surface, sloor’), Latin <mentioned xml:lang="lat" target="#cog_lat_tellus"><ref target="#cog_lat_tellus">tellūs</ref></mentioned> (‘earth; world’), Old Irish <mentioned xml:lang="sga" target="#cog_sga_talam"><ref target="#cog_sga_talam">talam</ref></mentioned> (‘earth, dry land’).</seg>
          </etym>
          <re type="paradigm">
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #nom">
              <orth>þelą</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #nom">
              <orth>þelō</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #acc">
              <orth>þelą</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #acc">
              <orth>þelō</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #gen">
              <orth>þelas, þilis</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #gen">
              <orth>þelǫ̂</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #dat">
              <orth>þelai</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #dat">
              <orth>þelamaz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #instr">
              <orth>þelō</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #instr">
              <orth>þelamiz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #voc">
              <orth>þelą</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #voc">
              <orth>þelō</orth>
            </form>
          </re>
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              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old English</lang>
                  <orth>þel</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Middle English</lang>
                    <orth>thele</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>English</lang>
                      <orth>theal</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Saxon</lang>
                  <orth>thili</orth>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Dutch</lang>
                  <orth>*thili</orth>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old High German</lang>
                  <orth>dil</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Middle High German</lang>
                    <orth>dil, til</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old High German</lang>
                  <orth>dili</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Middle High German</lang>
                    <orth>dil, til</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old High German</lang>
                  <orth>dilo</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Middle High German</lang>
                    <orth>dil, til</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>þel</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Finnish</lang>
                    <orth>teli</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Swedish</lang>
                    <orth>þiæl</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>þili</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Finnish</lang>
                    <orth>teli</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Swedish</lang>
                    <orth>þiæl</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>þeli</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Finnish</lang>
                    <orth>teli</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Swedish</lang>
                    <orth>þiæl</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-Samic</lang>
                  <orth>*tielō</orth>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-Finnic</lang>
                  <orth>*tëla</orth>
                </form>
              </item>
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