Reconstruction talk:Proto-Germanic/fastuz

Descendants, or relatives

What relation to Irish feiste, as at feistigh? This seems to be the same root, either suggesting a loan from Germanic, or bolstering the case for a PIE ancestor. ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │^{Tala við mig} 19:42, 11 January 2016 (UTC)

I can't say if it was loaned, but a PIE candidate for the Irish term is *wes- (“dress, clothe”). —CodeCat 21:46, 11 January 2016 (UTC)

The Irish word seems to be from Middle English (see discussion at the lemma). It can hardly be an inherited cognate (if it's a cognate) because - if I'm not missing anything - Irish lost all PIE *p-, rather than shifting to f-.