Reconstruction talk:Proto-West Germanic/fnoʀukōn

sn- for fn-

It's late, so I am not at 100% awareness...but I was thinking perhaps this term and its relative *snarkōn might not be related to *fnorō (> Old English fnora), but I'm not seeing the shift in OHG of fn- to sn-, as in English, but MHG seems to retain pfn- (cf. pfnurren, pfneschezen, pfnūsen), so I'll look at it fresh in the morning. Leasnam (talk) 07:40, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

Actually, I do see both pfn- alternating with sn- in MHG (e.g. snurren "to purr, whiz" and snūsen "snorting") so it seems that German parallels English in shifting fn>sn Leasnam (talk) 07:44, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

@Leasnam: I like this theory. --{{victar|talk}} 22:40, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

Great ! I'll devote some time to it this evening when I return. :) Leasnam (talk) 23:32, 26 January 2024 (UTC)