Reconstruction talk:Proto-Germanic/snidaz
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Hi There is a mismatch for the entry in PGmc *snidaz. Surely the entry should be *snidą, to match the declension given.
- @Leasnam, what do you think? —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 08:07, 3 November 2014 (UTC)
- Koebler gives the reconstruction a masculine gender (*snidaz), yet none of the attested descendants are masculine. Oftentimes a pgmc lemma will descend masculine in WGmc and oddly enough descend as neuter in Old Norse. And in such cases his reconstructs for pgmc are Masc. But in the case with this word, the OE shows neuter. I would say best to err on the safe side and agree with koebler: that pgmc was masc (*snidaz), but add a note on the entry explaining why, noting that masc descendants of this word either died out, were possibly changed (in the case of OE) due to influence from Ngmc, or were simply never recorded. Leasnam (talk) 16:21, 3 November 2014 (UTC)
- I have corrected it. Apparently when i moved it i failed to change the page info to match. My apologies. Leasnam (talk) 16:44, 3 November 2014 (UTC)
- Koebler gives the reconstruction a masculine gender (*snidaz), yet none of the attested descendants are masculine. Oftentimes a pgmc lemma will descend masculine in WGmc and oddly enough descend as neuter in Old Norse. And in such cases his reconstructs for pgmc are Masc. But in the case with this word, the OE shows neuter. I would say best to err on the safe side and agree with koebler: that pgmc was masc (*snidaz), but add a note on the entry explaining why, noting that masc descendants of this word either died out, were possibly changed (in the case of OE) due to influence from Ngmc, or were simply never recorded. Leasnam (talk) 16:21, 3 November 2014 (UTC)