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Ashtâr Balînestyâr wrote:Is it *wrekanaz ‘pursued’?
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Did the first morpheme begin with *wr-?
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shimobaatar wrote:Did the first morpheme begin with *wr-?
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qwed117 wrote:
shimobaatar wrote:Did the first morpheme begin with *wr-?
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*pr-?
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shimobaatar wrote:
qwed117 wrote:
shimobaatar wrote:Did the first morpheme begin with *wr-?
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*pr-?
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qwed117 wrote:
shimobaatar wrote:
qwed117 wrote:
shimobaatar wrote:Did the first morpheme begin with *wr-?
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*pr-?
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*br-?
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*hr-?

Did the ancestor of kk at least contain a *k in PG?
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shimobaatar wrote:
qwed117 wrote:
shimobaatar wrote:
qwed117 wrote:
shimobaatar wrote:Did the first morpheme begin with *wr-?
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*pr-?
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*br-?
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Ashtâr Balînestyâr wrote:*hr-?

Did the ancestor of kk at least contain a *k in PG?
I'm just gonna give it to you that the gemination is contamination from another word.
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*brukanaz ‘broken’, contaminated by the iterative *brukkōdaz?
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Ashtâr Balînestyâr wrote:*brukanaz ‘broken’, contaminated by the iterative *brukkōdaz?
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Onward to bųan then.

Was the onset *b in PG?
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Ashtâr Balînestyâr wrote:Onward to bųan then.

Was the onset *b in PG?
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Ashtâr Balînestyâr wrote:Was a nasal consonant lost in the middle of that morpheme?
Not really, but sorta? The nasal became a nasal vowel that then colored the l in front.
What did you mean by the first part of this? Was there a nasal consonant between the two vowels in "bųan" or not? I know you've said there was a consonant of some kind there.
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If the consonant between the vowels in "bųan" wasn’t nasal, was it a dorsal obstruent (g, k, h)?
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Ashtâr Balînestyâr wrote:If the consonant between the vowels in "bųan" wasn’t nasal, was it a dorsal obstruent (g, k, h)?
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The word was trisyllabic in the shape CVCVNṼ. N is a nasal, V an indeterminate vowel, and Ṽ a nasal vowel.
I hope this makes things a bit clearer shimobaatar and Ashtâr Balînestyâr.
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qwed117 wrote:
Ashtâr Balînestyâr wrote:If the consonant between the vowels in "bųan" wasn’t nasal, was it a dorsal obstruent (g, k, h)?
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The word was trisyllabic in the shape CVCVNṼ. N is a nasal, V an indeterminate vowel, and Ṽ a nasal vowel.
I hope this makes things a bit clearer shimobaatar and Ashtâr Balînestyâr.
In a way, that makes things more confusing. How did the nasal vowel get where it is (rhetorical question, for now)? Then again, I'm an idiot.

Based on what you've told us here combined with what you've told us in the past (that it's an infinitive beginning with *b-), I assume the Proto-Germanic word was bV₁CV₂ną? Was V₂ *a?
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If not, was it a class 2 weak verb *bV₁Cōną?
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Since it’s been a while since anyone’s posted on this thread, I hope no one minds if I start it back up with a new word.

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točan~gazočan

A clue here is that these are two variants of the same word.
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spanick wrote: 16 Mar 2018 17:07 Since it’s been a while since anyone’s posted on this thread, I hope no one minds if I start it back up with a new word.
Oh, not at all! Thank you for reviving this!

This probably doesn't need to be asked, but just in case, is this a verb? If so, is the left variant the infinitive?
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shimobaatar wrote: 16 Mar 2018 17:21 This probably doesn't need to be asked, but just in case, is this a verb? If so, is the left variant the infinitive?
Yes, it is a verb. The left variant is an infinitive.
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