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        <title type="main">Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *āhwijaz</title>
        <author>Scott K. Shay</author>
      </titleStmt>
      <publicationStmt>
        <publisher>Wardja Press</publisher>
        <date when="2026-10-01"/>
        <idno type="URL">https://protogermanic.org/pgmc_āhwijaz</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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          <monogr>
            <title level="m">Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 11)</title>
            <author>
              <forename>Guus</forename>
              <surname>Kroonen</surname>
            </author>
            <imprint>
              <publisher>Brill</publisher>
              <date>2013</date>
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        <item xml:id="cog_ine-x-proto_h2ekw_eh2" xml:lang="ine-x-proto" type="etymon">
          <orth>*h₂ékʷ-eh₂</orth>
          <def>running water, water</def>
        </item>
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        <entry xml:id="pgmc_ahwijaz" type="noun" corresp="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/āhwijaz">
          <form type="lemma">
            <orth>āhwijaz</orth>
            <pron notation="ipa">ˈɑː.xʷi.jɑz</pron>
            <form type="runic">
              <orth>ᚨᚺᚹᛁᛃᚨᛉ</orth>
            </form>
          </form>
          <gramGrp>
            <pos>noun</pos>
            <gram type="gender">masculine</gram>
            <gram type="stem">ja-stem</gram>
          </gramGrp>
          <sense n="1">
            <def>sea, ocean; in North Germanic also the personified sea or sea-being</def>
          </sense>
          <etym>
            <seg type="p">Probably from pre-Germanic <mentioned xml:lang="gmw-x-proto">*h₂ēkʷ-yó-s</mentioned>, a lengthened-grade relational derivative of Proto-Indo-European <mentioned xml:lang="" target="#cog_ine-x-proto_h2ekw_eh2"><ref target="#cog_ine-x-proto_h2ekw_eh2">*h₂ékʷ-eh₂</ref></mentioned>, also the origin of Proto-Germanic <mentioned xml:lang="" target="#pgmc_ahwo"><ref target="#pgmc_ahwo">*ahwō</ref></mentioned>. The long vowel is from an inherited lengthened grade in the derivative <bibl corresp="#kroonen2013" n="s.v. *egja-">Kroonen 2013: s.v. *egja-</bibl>.</seg>
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            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #nom">
              <orth>āhwijaz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #nom">
              <orth>āhwijōz, āhwijōs</orth>
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            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #acc">
              <orth>āhwiją</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #acc">
              <orth>āhwijanz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #gen">
              <orth>āhwijas, āhwīs</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #gen">
              <orth>āhwijǫ̂</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #dat">
              <orth>āhwijai</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #dat">
              <orth>āhwijamaz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #instr">
              <orth>āhwijō</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #instr">
              <orth>āhwijamiz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #voc">
              <orth>āhwī</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #voc">
              <orth>āhwijōz, āhwijōs</orth>
            </form>
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                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-Norse</lang>
                  <orth>*ēgjiʀ(?), *ēgweʀ(?), *ēgwijaʀ</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                    <orth>ægir</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Faroese</lang>
                      <orth>ægir</orth>
                    </form>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Icelandic</lang>
                      <orth>Ægir, ægir</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
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