Reconstruction talk:Proto-West Germanic/unþa-

Hey @Leasnam. So I noticed you wrote some dozen years ago that Old English “has two forms [of this prefix]: a stressed form ūþ-, and unstressed oþ-”. My understanding, for one, is that a prefix would never be stressed to begin with, noun or otherwise. Furthermore, the distribution doesn't seem to have any rhyme or reason, i.e. ōþspyrning and ūþwitigung. I simply think that PWG *unþ- [n̩θ] yielded pre-OE *anþ- ~ *unþ-, whence *ōþ- ~ *ūþ-, compare Old Frisian ontfalla, undfalla, andfalla. -- Skiulinamo (talk) 09:10, 10 January 2023 (UTC)

The stress depends on the POS: with verbs it is unstressed, but with nouns and adjectives it is stressed. Leasnam (talk) 14:08, 10 January 2023 (UTC)