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        <title type="main">Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *-þwō</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_þwō</idno>
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            <title level="m">Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 4)</title>
            <author>
              <forename>Rick</forename>
              <surname>Derksen</surname>
            </author>
            <imprint>
              <publisher>Brill</publisher>
              <date>2008</date>
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          <monogr>
            <title level="m">Nominale Stammbildungslehre der altgermanischen Dialekte</title>
            <author>
              <forename>Friedrich</forename>
              <surname>Kluge</surname>
            </author>
            <imprint>
              <publisher>Max Niemayer</publisher>
              <date>1899</date>
            </imprint>
          </monogr>
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        <biblStruct xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="book" xml:id="krahe1969" corresp="http://zotero.org/users/21108209/items/6TKE9TIV">
          <monogr>
            <title level="m">Germanische Sprachwissenschaft III: Wortbildungslehre</title>
            <author>
              <forename>Hans</forename>
              <surname>Krahe</surname>
            </author>
            <author>
              <forename>Wolfgang</forename>
              <surname>Meid</surname>
            </author>
            <imprint>
              <publisher>Walter de Gruyter</publisher>
              <date>1969</date>
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          <monogr>
            <title level="m">Slavic nominal word-formation: Proto-Indo-European origins and historical development (Empirie und Theorie der Sprachwissenschaft 3)</title>
            <author>
              <forename>Ranko</forename>
              <surname>Matasović</surname>
            </author>
            <imprint>
              <pubPlace>Heidelberg</pubPlace>
              <publisher>Universitätsverlag Winter</publisher>
              <date>2014</date>
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        <item xml:id="cog_ave_tva" xml:lang="ave" type="cognate">
          <orth>𐬙𐬎𐬎𐬀</orth>
          <form type="translit">
            <orth>-tva-</orth>
          </form>
          <def type="function">forms action nouns</def>
        </item>
        <item xml:id="cog_ine-x-proto_eh2" xml:lang="ine-x-proto" type="etymon">
          <orth>*-éh₂</orth>
          <def type="function">forms collective nouns and mass nouns, corresponding to thematic formations with accent on the suffix; forms action nouns and abstract nouns</def>
        </item>
        <item xml:id="cog_ine-x-proto_tu" xml:lang="ine-x-proto" type="etymon">
          <orth>*-tu-</orth>
          <def>forms nouns from verb roots</def>
        </item>
        <item xml:id="cog_ine-x-proto_tweh2" xml:lang="ine-x-proto" type="etymon">
          <orth>*-twéh₂</orth>
          <def type="function">forms nouns from verbs</def>
        </item>
        <item xml:id="cog_san_tva" xml:lang="san" type="cognate">
          <orth>-त्व</orth>
          <form type="translit">
            <orth>-tvá</orth>
          </form>
          <def type="function">forms abstract nouns from Sanskrit-borrowed words</def>
        </item>
        <item xml:id="cog_sla-x-proto_tva_x2" xml:lang="sla-x-proto" type="cognate">
          <orth>*-tva</orth>
          <def type="function">forms nouns denoting an act, state, result</def>
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        <entry xml:id="pgmc_thwo" type="suffix" corresp="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/-þwō">
          <form type="lemma">
            <orth>-þwō</orth>
            <pron notation="ipa">θwɔː</pron>
            <form type="runic">
              <orth>ᚦᚹᛟ</orth>
            </form>
          </form>
          <gramGrp>
            <pos>suffix</pos>
            <gram type="suffixType">noun</gram>
            <gram type="gender">feminine</gram>
            <gram type="stem">ō-stem</gram>
          </gramGrp>
          <sense n="1" type="function">
            <def>forms feminine abstract/action nouns from verbs, often denoting an act, state, result, or associated condition</def>
          </sense>
          <etym>
            <seg type="p">From Proto-Indo-European <mentioned xml:lang="ine-x-proto" target="#cog_ine-x-proto_tweh2"><ref target="#cog_ine-x-proto_tweh2">*-twéh₂</ref></mentioned>, beside strong-form <mentioned xml:lang="gmw-x-proto">*-tuh₂</mentioned>, from <mentioned xml:lang="" target="#cog_ine-x-proto_tu"><ref target="#cog_ine-x-proto_tu">*-tu-</ref></mentioned> + <mentioned xml:lang="" target="#cog_ine-x-proto_eh2"><ref target="#cog_ine-x-proto_eh2">*-éh₂</ref></mentioned>. Some inherited forms show <mentioned xml:lang="gmw-x-proto">*-dwō</mentioned> by Verner’s Law and later leveling <bibl corresp="#kluge1899" n="§140">Kluge 1899: §140</bibl> <bibl corresp="#krahe1969" n="§127">Krahe &amp; Meid 1969: §127</bibl>. The closest IE cognates are Proto-Balto-Slavic <mentioned xml:lang="gmw-x-proto">*-twāˀ</mentioned> &gt; Proto-Slavic <mentioned xml:lang="" target="#cog_sla-x-proto_tva_x2"><ref target="#cog_sla-x-proto_tva_x2">*-tva</ref></mentioned>, forming deverbative nouns of action, state, result, and instrument <bibl corresp="#derksen2008" n="42">Derksen 2008: 42</bibl> <bibl corresp="#matasovic2014" n="115–17">Matasović 2014: 115–17</bibl>. Sanskrit <mentioned xml:lang="san" target="#cog_san_tva"><ref target="#cog_san_tva">-त्व</ref></mentioned> and Avestan <mentioned xml:lang="ave" target="#cog_ave_tva"><ref target="#cog_ave_tva">𐬙𐬎𐬎𐬀</ref></mentioned> are structurally related members of the same complex.</seg>
          </etym>
          <re type="paradigm">
            <form type="inflected" ana="#nom #sg">
              <orth>-þwō</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#nom #pl">
              <orth>-þwôz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#acc #sg">
              <orth>-þwǭ</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#acc #pl">
              <orth>-þwōz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#gen #sg">
              <orth>-þwōz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#gen #pl">
              <orth>-þwǫ̂</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#dat #sg">
              <orth>-þwōi</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#dat #pl">
              <orth>-þwōmaz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#instr #sg">
              <orth>-þwō</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#instr #pl">
              <orth>-þwōmiz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#voc #sg">
              <orth>-þwō</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#voc #pl">
              <orth>-þwôz</orth>
            </form>
          </re>
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              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Gothic</lang>
                  <orth>-𐌸𐍅𐌰 (-þwa)</orth>
                </form>
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