"walą" meaning in Proto-Germanic

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Noun

IPA: /ˈwɑ.lɑ̃/
Etymology: From Proto-Indo-European *welh₁- (“to choose, to want”), synchronically analyzed as a nominal formation from *waljaną (“to choose”). Etymology templates: {{der|gem-pro|ine-pro|*welh₁-|t=to choose, to want}} Proto-Indo-European *welh₁- (“to choose, to want”) Inflection templates: {{gem-decl-noun}} Forms: no-table-tags [table-tags], walą [nominative, singular], walō [nominative, plural], walą [singular, vocative], walō [plural, vocative], walą [accusative, singular], walō [accusative, plural], walas [genitive, singular], walis [genitive, singular], walǫ̂ [genitive, plural], walai [dative, singular], walamaz [dative, plural], walō [instrumental, singular], walamiz [instrumental, plural]
  1. choice, selection Tags: neuter, reconstruction Related terms: waljaną, walō, wela, wiljaną
    Sense id: en-walą-gem-pro-noun-1Z2-ma9O Categories (other): Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Proto-Germanic entries with incorrect language header
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  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "gmw-pro",
            "2": "*walu",
            "g": "f"
          },
          "expansion": "Proto-West Germanic: *walu f\nOld High German: wala\nMiddle High German: wale\nGerman: Wahl\n→ Luxembourgish: Wal\nLuxembourgish: Wiel (with umlaut after the verb)",
          "name": "desctree"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Proto-West Germanic: *walu f\nOld High German: wala\nMiddle High German: wale\nGerman: Wahl\n→ Luxembourgish: Wal\nLuxembourgish: Wiel (with umlaut after the verb)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "non",
            "2": "val"
          },
          "expansion": "Old Norse: val",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Old Norse: val"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "is",
            "2": "val"
          },
          "expansion": "Icelandic: val",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Icelandic: val"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fo",
            "2": "val"
          },
          "expansion": "Faroese: val",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Faroese: val"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "nn",
            "2": "val"
          },
          "expansion": "Norwegian Nynorsk: val",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Norwegian Nynorsk: val"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sv",
            "2": "val"
          },
          "expansion": "Swedish: val",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Swedish: val"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "da",
            "2": "valg"
          },
          "expansion": "Danish: valg",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Danish: valg"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "nb",
            "2": "valg"
          },
          "expansion": "Norwegian Bokmål: valg",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Norwegian Bokmål: valg"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fo",
            "2": "valg",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Faroese: valg",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Faroese: valg"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "enm",
            "2": "wale",
            "3": "wal",
            "4": "wayle",
            "5": "wall",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Middle English: wale, wal, wayle, wall",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Middle English: wale, wal, wayle, wall"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sco",
            "2": "wale",
            "3": "wail"
          },
          "expansion": "Scots: wale, wail",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Scots: wale, wail"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": "wale"
          },
          "expansion": "English: wale",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "English: wale"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gem-pro",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*welh₁-",
        "t": "to choose, to want"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *welh₁- (“to choose, to want”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Indo-European *welh₁- (“to choose, to want”), synchronically analyzed as a nominal formation from *waljaną (“to choose”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gem-decl-noun",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "a-stem",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "walą",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "walō",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "walą",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "walō",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "walą",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "walō",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "walas",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "walis",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "walǫ̂",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "walai",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "walamaz",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "walō",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "walamiz",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "name": "gem-decl-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Proto-Germanic",
  "lang_code": "gem-pro",
  "original_title": "Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/walą",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Proto-Germanic entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "choice, selection"
      ],
      "id": "en-walą-gem-pro-noun-1Z2-ma9O",
      "links": [
        [
          "choice",
          "choice"
        ],
        [
          "selection",
          "selection"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "waljaną"
        },
        {
          "word": "walō"
        },
        {
          "word": "wela"
        },
        {
          "word": "wiljaną"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "reconstruction"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈwɑ.lɑ̃/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "walą"
}
{
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "gmw-pro",
            "2": "*walu",
            "g": "f"
          },
          "expansion": "Proto-West Germanic: *walu f\nOld High German: wala\nMiddle High German: wale\nGerman: Wahl\n→ Luxembourgish: Wal\nLuxembourgish: Wiel (with umlaut after the verb)",
          "name": "desctree"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Proto-West Germanic: *walu f\nOld High German: wala\nMiddle High German: wale\nGerman: Wahl\n→ Luxembourgish: Wal\nLuxembourgish: Wiel (with umlaut after the verb)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "non",
            "2": "val"
          },
          "expansion": "Old Norse: val",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Old Norse: val"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "is",
            "2": "val"
          },
          "expansion": "Icelandic: val",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Icelandic: val"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fo",
            "2": "val"
          },
          "expansion": "Faroese: val",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Faroese: val"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "nn",
            "2": "val"
          },
          "expansion": "Norwegian Nynorsk: val",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Norwegian Nynorsk: val"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sv",
            "2": "val"
          },
          "expansion": "Swedish: val",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Swedish: val"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "da",
            "2": "valg"
          },
          "expansion": "Danish: valg",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Danish: valg"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "nb",
            "2": "valg"
          },
          "expansion": "Norwegian Bokmål: valg",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Norwegian Bokmål: valg"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fo",
            "2": "valg",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Faroese: valg",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Faroese: valg"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "enm",
            "2": "wale",
            "3": "wal",
            "4": "wayle",
            "5": "wall",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Middle English: wale, wal, wayle, wall",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Middle English: wale, wal, wayle, wall"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sco",
            "2": "wale",
            "3": "wail"
          },
          "expansion": "Scots: wale, wail",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Scots: wale, wail"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": "wale"
          },
          "expansion": "English: wale",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "English: wale"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gem-pro",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*welh₁-",
        "t": "to choose, to want"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *welh₁- (“to choose, to want”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Indo-European *welh₁- (“to choose, to want”), synchronically analyzed as a nominal formation from *waljaną (“to choose”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gem-decl-noun",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "a-stem",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "walą",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "walō",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "walą",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "walō",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "walą",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "walō",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "walas",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "walis",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "walǫ̂",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "walai",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "walamaz",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "walō",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "walamiz",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "name": "gem-decl-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Proto-Germanic",
  "lang_code": "gem-pro",
  "original_title": "Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/walą",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "waljaną"
    },
    {
      "word": "walō"
    },
    {
      "word": "wela"
    },
    {
      "word": "wiljaną"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Proto-Germanic a-stem nouns",
        "Proto-Germanic entries with incorrect language header",
        "Proto-Germanic lemmas",
        "Proto-Germanic neuter nouns",
        "Proto-Germanic nouns",
        "Proto-Germanic terms derived from Proto-Indo-European"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "choice, selection"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "choice",
          "choice"
        ],
        [
          "selection",
          "selection"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "reconstruction"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈwɑ.lɑ̃/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "walą"
}

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