"āhwijaz" meaning in Proto-Germanic

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Noun

Etymology: From *ahwō (“river, water”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ékʷeh₂ (“water”); with added + *-jaz (“-er”). Related to Old English ēagor (“water, sea”) and Old Norse ægir (“sea, ocean”) and Old English ǣg-weard (“beach-ward”); Possibly ancestral to English eagre (“tidal bore”). See also *agraz (“flood”) Etymology templates: {{inh|gem-pro|ine-pro|*h₂ékʷeh₂|t=water}} Proto-Indo-European *h₂ékʷeh₂ (“water”), {{cog|ang|ēagor|t=water, sea}} Old English ēagor (“water, sea”), {{cog|non|ægir|t=sea, ocean}} Old Norse ægir (“sea, ocean”), {{cog|ang|ǣg-weard|t=beach-ward}} Old English ǣg-weard (“beach-ward”), {{cog|en|eagre|t=tidal bore}} English eagre (“tidal bore”) Inflection templates: {{gem-decl-noun}} Forms: no-table-tags [table-tags], āhwijaz [nominative, singular], āhwijōz [nominative, plural], āhwijōs [nominative, plural], āhwī [singular, vocative], āhwijōz [plural, vocative], āhwijōs [plural, vocative], āhwiją [accusative, singular], āhwijanz [accusative, plural], āhwijas [genitive, singular], āhwīs [genitive, singular], āhwijǫ̂ [genitive, plural], āhwijai [dative, singular], āhwijamaz [dative, plural], āhwijō [instrumental, singular], āhwijamiz [instrumental, plural]
  1. sea, water Tags: masculine, reconstruction
    Sense id: en-āhwijaz-gem-pro-noun-L5YH0Ce- Categories (other): Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 46 5 50 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 51 2 47
  2. tide Tags: masculine, reconstruction
    Sense id: en-āhwijaz-gem-pro-noun-iiiSmsf5
  3. (North Germanic) Ægir, a personification of the sea and a giant in Norse mythology Tags: Germanic, North, masculine, reconstruction Derived forms (Old Norse: ægisandr; Icelandic): ægisandur
    Sense id: en-āhwijaz-gem-pro-noun-co4VdnD9 Categories (other): North Proto-Germanic, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Proto-Germanic entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 46 5 50 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 51 2 47 Disambiguation of Proto-Germanic entries with incorrect language header: 41 1 58 Disambiguation of 'Old Norse: ægisandr; Icelandic': 4 0 96
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: ǣg-weard [Old-English]
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  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "tags": [
        "Old-English"
      ],
      "word": "ǣg-weard"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
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        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ang",
            "2": "ēagor",
            "unc": "1"
          },
          "expansion": ">? Old English: ēagor",
          "name": "desctree"
        }
      ],
      "text": ">? Old English: ēagor"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
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        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": "eagre",
            "unc": "1"
          },
          "expansion": ">? English: eagre",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": ">? English: eagre"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "gmq-pro",
            "2": "*ēgjiʀ(?), *ēgweʀ(?), *ēgwijaʀ"
          },
          "expansion": "Proto-Norse: *ēgjiʀ(?), *ēgweʀ(?), *ēgwijaʀ",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Proto-Norse: *ēgjiʀ(?), *ēgweʀ(?), *ēgwijaʀ"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "non",
            "2": "ægir"
          },
          "expansion": "Old Norse: ægir\nIcelandic: Ægir, ægir\nFaroese: ægir",
          "name": "desctree"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Old Norse: ægir\nIcelandic: Ægir, ægir\nFaroese: ægir"
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
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        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*h₂ékʷeh₂",
        "t": "water"
      },
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      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "ēagor",
        "t": "water, sea"
      },
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    {
      "args": {
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      },
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      "name": "cog"
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    {
      "args": {
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        "t": "tidal bore"
      },
      "expansion": "English eagre (“tidal bore”)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From *ahwō (“river, water”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ékʷeh₂ (“water”); with added + *-jaz (“-er”). Related to Old English ēagor (“water, sea”) and Old Norse ægir (“sea, ocean”) and Old English ǣg-weard (“beach-ward”); Possibly ancestral to English eagre (“tidal bore”). See also *agraz (“flood”)",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gem-decl-noun",
      "source": "inflection",
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      "form": "ja-stem",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
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      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
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    {
      "form": "āhwijōz",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "āhwijōs",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "āhwī",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "āhwijōz",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "āhwijōs",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "āhwiją",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "āhwijanz",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "āhwijas",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "āhwīs",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "āhwijǫ̂",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "āhwijai",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "āhwijamaz",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "āhwijō",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "āhwijamiz",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {},
      "name": "gem-decl-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Proto-Germanic",
  "lang_code": "gem-pro",
  "original_title": "Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/āhwijaz",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
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        },
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
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        "sea, water"
      ],
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        "masculine",
        "reconstruction"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "tide"
      ],
      "id": "en-āhwijaz-gem-pro-noun-iiiSmsf5",
      "tags": [
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        "reconstruction"
      ]
    },
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          "kind": "other",
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          "parents": [],
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        },
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
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          "_dis": "51 2 47",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
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          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
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        }
      ],
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          "word": "ægisandur"
        }
      ],
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      ],
      "id": "en-āhwijaz-gem-pro-noun-co4VdnD9",
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        [
          "Ægir",
          "Ægir"
        ],
        [
          "giant",
          "giant"
        ]
      ],
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        "(North Germanic) Ægir, a personification of the sea and a giant in Norse mythology"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Germanic",
        "North",
        "masculine",
        "reconstruction"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "āhwijaz"
}
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  "categories": [
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    "Pages with entries",
    "Proto-Germanic entries with incorrect language header",
    "Proto-Germanic ja-stem nouns",
    "Proto-Germanic lemmas",
    "Proto-Germanic masculine nouns",
    "Proto-Germanic nouns",
    "Proto-Germanic terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
    "Proto-Germanic terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Old-English"
      ],
      "word": "ǣg-weard"
    },
    {
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    }
  ],
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        }
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      "text": ">? Old English: ēagor"
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    },
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        }
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    }
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      },
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gem-decl-noun",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ja-stem",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "āhwijaz",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "āhwijōz",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "āhwijōs",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "āhwī",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "āhwijōz",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "āhwijōs",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "āhwiją",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "āhwijanz",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "āhwijas",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "āhwīs",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "āhwijǫ̂",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "āhwijai",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "āhwijamaz",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "āhwijō",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "āhwijamiz",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "name": "gem-decl-noun"
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  ],
  "lang": "Proto-Germanic",
  "lang_code": "gem-pro",
  "original_title": "Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/āhwijaz",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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      "glosses": [
        "sea, water"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "reconstruction"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "tide"
      ],
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        "masculine",
        "reconstruction"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "North Proto-Germanic",
        "gem-pro:Mythology"
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          "Ægir",
          "Ægir"
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          "giant",
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        "(North Germanic) Ægir, a personification of the sea and a giant in Norse mythology"
      ],
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        "masculine",
        "reconstruction"
      ]
    }
  ],
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}

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