Reconstruction talk:Proto-Germanic/knuppaz
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Latest comment: 27 days ago by David Patrick 50 in topic Ablauting n-stem?
Ablauting n-stem?
[edit]Kroonen 2009 has this as an ablauting n-stem, nom. *knūbô, gen. *knuppaz < PIE *gnéwbʰ-ō(n) ~ *gnubʰ-nós. This implies paradigm split, as with similar words identified by Kroonen.
This accounts for the geminate consonant.