Reconstruction talk:Proto-West Germanic/þwahilā

RFD discussion: February 2023

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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/þwahilā

Redundant entry of *þwahilu, I'm guessing to accommodate for the Old English? Overkill duplication and *-ilā doesn't seem to have been a productive PWG suffix. – Sokkjō · ᛏ 07:37, 23 February 2023 (UTC)

Again you're "guessing" incorrectly, Old High German dwahila/dwehila is also weak (and there is additionally a strong variant). @Sokkjō: You don't own the Reconstruction space, so please stop acting like you do. Leasnam (talk) 02:24, 24 February 2023 (UTC)

@Leasnam how am I "owning" the reconstruction space? I'm just putting in corrections. 1. you failed to address the issue of duplication again, 2. *-ilā is a mostly unproductive plant/animal suffix, so at best, the etymology is wrong. The term is formed with the higly productive instrumental suffix *-ilu, making *þwahilu the principle reconstruction and any variation intra-WG. --– Sokkjō 20:21, 26 February 2023 (UTC)

Obviously it's not only a plant/animal suffix, it is also an agent suffix, a feminine agent suffix. <<1. you failed to address the issue of duplication again>> okay, let me address it to you again - it's not duplication if the declensions are distinct. Easy enough ? Leasnam (talk) 01:12, 28 February 2023 (UTC)

RFD kept, old Victar-Leasnam slapfight that did not end in any kind of consensus.