Reconstruction talk:Old Norse/sinkva

Shouldn't this entry be *sinkva - adhering to normal Old Norse orthography ? Leasnam (talk) 22:23, 7 January 2022 (UTC)

This is not "normal Old Norse", which is actually just Norwegian-Icelandic. It is "Old East Norse" (better termed "Old East Nordic"), which certainly retained /w/ for a long time after it turned into /v/ in Old Norse. Even today certain dialects in the East Norse group retain /w/. ᛙᛆᚱᛐᛁᚿᛌᛆᛌ ᛭ Proto-Norsing ᛭ Ask me anything 14:28, 8 January 2022 (UTC)

But Old Norse, even West Old Norse v was pronounced as /w/. v is the orthographic representation of /w/, right (?) Leasnam (talk) 14:43, 8 January 2022 (UTC)

Yes, in normalized Old Icelandic. In normalized Runic Swedish and Danish (which are East Norse), w is used. I think the big problem here however is that "Old Norse" on Wiktionary is very Icelandic-centered. Thus 1200s Old Icelandic terms are listed as ancestral to 1100s Old Danish manuscript forms, even though they really are at an equal level. Imagine if we had Vedic Sanskrit as the ancestor of Avestan! You see how ridiculous it becomes... ᛙᛆᚱᛐᛁᚿᛌᛆᛌ ᛭ Proto-Norsing ᛭ Ask me anything 15:14, 8 January 2022 (UTC)