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Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From *wurmiz (“worm”) + *-ją (collective suffix). Kroonen points out that an identical neuter collective formation also appears in Proto-Slavic *vьrmьje.[1]
Noun
*wurmiją n[2]
- vermin
Inflection
| neuter ja-stemDeclension of *wurmiją (neuter ja-stem)
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singular
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plural
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| nominative
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*wurmiją
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*wurmijō
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| vocative
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*wurmiją
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*wurmijō
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| accusative
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*wurmiją
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*wurmijō
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| genitive
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*wurmijas, *wurmīs
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*wurmijǫ̂
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| dative
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*wurmijai
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*wurmijamaz
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| instrumental
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*wurmijō
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*wurmijamiz
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Descendants
References
- ^ Guus Kroonen (2013) “*wurmi-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 600
- ^ Rychło, Mikołaj, Witczak, Krzysztof Tomasz (2022) “Proto-Indo-European Collective Nouns in *-ii̯om: Lexical Evidence”, in The Journal of Indo-European Studies, volume 50, number 1 & 2, page 155
