Reconstruction talk:Proto-West Germanic/sauw

@Rua, yeah? This doesn't look like a wa-stem to you? --{{victar|talk}} 04:54, 21 January 2021 (UTC)

It had -ww- in Proto-Germanic, which regularly becomes -uw- in PWG. —Rua (mew) 09:56, 21 January 2021 (UTC)

@Rua: Only Kroonen inexplicitly reconstructs *-ww-. Is there any basis for it in its descendants? --{{victar|talk}} 20:07, 21 January 2021 (UTC)

-ww- is reflected as -ggw- in Old Norse sǫggr. —Rua (mew) 10:59, 22 January 2021 (UTC)

@Rua: Holtzmann's law can't be applied to this word because there is no original PIE laryngeal. No such ON word is attested, only Icelandic söggur and Norwegian søgg (“moist”). --{{victar|talk}} 16:50, 22 January 2021 (UTC)

Old High German sou has souwes as the genitive singular. This shows that the PGmc genitive was *sawwas, *sawwes. Leasnam (talk) 23:01, 17 December 2021 (UTC)