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Wario Toad 32 wrote:Rych /ʀɪx/
Bamhas /bamhas/
Were people's guesses regarding these words ever confirmed or denied?

Znex wrote:ōdōðramɛ̄
Is it a compound word?

Salmoneus wrote:4. tha lang wyrm
/th@ l{Ng wyrm/
If it's not "the long wyrm (dragon)" or "the long worm", is it "the long snake"?

Wario Toad 32 wrote:Ech gadochte obër dar Loft ont hü dar Wolkonë sent ols Haundën ont Faucholën.
/εx gadɑxtə obər dar lɔft ɔ̃t hy dar vɔlkɑ̃nə sεnt ols haundən ɔ̃t fauxolən/
This is pretty tough, at least in my opinion, since it's a longer sentence… is it "I thought about the air and X the clouds X out of dogs and X"? "X" represents a word I don't have a guess for.
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Isn't Faucholën just Falochland, his concountry?
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shimobaatar wrote:
Znex wrote:ōdōðramɛ̄
Is it a compound word?
Yep it is. [:)]
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Znex wrote:
shimobaatar wrote:
Znex wrote:ōdōðramɛ̄
Is it a compound word?
Yep it is. [:)]
Is it "ōdō-ðramɛ̄"?
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shimobaatar wrote:
Znex wrote:
shimobaatar wrote:
Znex wrote:ōdōðramɛ̄
Is it a compound word?
Yep it is. [:)]
Is it "ōdō-ðramɛ̄"?
No, it doesn't compound that way.
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(My phone doesn't have a o-macron, so I'll use a o-double accent for the same vowel, also ticked d instead of edh and e-dot for long mid front)

Is it ődőđra-mė
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qwed117 wrote:(My phone doesn't have a o-macron, so I'll use a o-double accent for the same vowel, also ticked d instead of edh and e-dot for long mid front)

Is it ődőđra-mė
Getting colder there! It's ōd-ōðramɛ̄.
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Is the word a noun?
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Znex wrote:
qwed117 wrote:(My phone doesn't have a o-macron, so I'll use a o-double accent for the same vowel, also ticked d instead of edh and e-dot for long mid front)

Is it ődőđra-mė
Getting colder there! It's ōd-ōðramɛ̄.
Does ōd derive from ūt?
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shimobaatar wrote:Is the word a noun?
It's not used as one, no.
All4Ɇn wrote:Does ōd derive from ūt?
No.
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Do both ō's have the same source?
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Is "ōd-" derived from a preposition or an element that was already used as a prefix in Proto-Germanic?
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qwed117 wrote:Do both ō's have the same source?
Yep, same sound change going on.
shimobaatar wrote:Is "ōd-" derived from a preposition or an element that was already used as a prefix in Proto-Germanic?
Yep.
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I teased out that the first morpheme is from *andi-. Like the Ingaevonic nasal spiral law, the a is lengthened and the n is lost. Then a probably became more close.

Following that, I identify *antheros with the second morpheme in the dative. That gives us roughly "against second". I think this is a preposition of some sort.
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qwed117 wrote:Following that, I identify *antheros with the second morpheme in the dative. That gives us roughly "against second". I think this is a preposition of some sort.
No, not a preposition. That meaning is very rough too; you'll need to tweak that and think more metaphorically.
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Is it a verb?
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shimobaatar wrote:Is it a verb?
Getting colder...
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adjective?
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qwed117 wrote:adjective?
Warmer...
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Adverb?
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