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        <title type="main">Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *þerhw</title>
        <author>Scott K. Shay</author>
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        <publisher>Wardja Press</publisher>
        <date when="2026-10-01"/>
        <idno type="URL">https://protogermanic.org/pgmc_þerhw</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_terh2" xml:lang="ine-x-proto" type="etymon">
          <orth>*terh₂-</orth>
          <def>to cross</def>
        </item>
        <item xml:id="cog_san_nica" xml:lang="san" type="cognate">
          <orth>नीच</orth>
          <form type="translit">
            <orth>nīca</orth>
          </form>
          <def>below, down</def>
        </item>
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        <entry xml:id="pgmc_therhw" type="preposition" corresp="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/þerhw">
          <form type="lemma">
            <orth>þerhw</orth>
            <pron notation="ipa">ˈθerxʷ</pron>
            <form type="runic">
              <orth>ᚦᛖᚱᚺᚹ</orth>
            </form>
          </form>
          <gramGrp>
            <pos>preposition</pos>
          </gramGrp>
          <sense n="1">
            <def>through</def>
          </sense>
          <etym>
            <seg type="p">Likely from Pre-Germanic *terh₂(h₃)kʷ-, a compound of Proto-Indo-European <mentioned xml:lang="ine-x-proto" target="#cog_ine-x-proto_terh2"><ref target="#cog_ine-x-proto_terh2">*terh₂-</ref></mentioned> (‘to cross’) + *h₃ekʷ- (‘to see’). For the latter component, compare Sanskrit <mentioned xml:lang="san" target="#cog_san_nica"><ref target="#cog_san_nica">नीच</ref></mentioned> (nīca, ‘below, down’) (&lt; *nih₃kʷeh₁).</seg>
          </etym>
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              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old English</lang>
                  <orth>þerh</orth>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old English</lang>
                  <orth>þærh</orth>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Gothic</lang>
                  <orth>𐌸𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌷 (þairh)</orth>
                </form>
              </item>
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