Reconstruction talk:Proto-Indo-European/met-

Notes

• I listed the Celtic forms as given by Matasović, but I would reconstruct the Celtic forms as *metilos and *metilā based off of Cornish midil, "reaper". I left as is because I cannot tell what the Irish form requires.
• The Germanic forms *maþilō and *mattukaz (< *mot-né- + -u(g/ǵ)os) seem highly suspect of being the remnants of a heteroclitic *mótl̥, oblique *mt-én-/*mt-né-, especially with comparison to *feþrō and its offshoot *fettakaz (OHG fettah/feddah, as if from *feddakaz/*feþþakaz).
• Beekes suspects Ancient Greek μέταλλον of being a loan merely because of its suffix, however *-l̥-yom > -allon would be perfectly regular, and the semantics fit quite well. Also, as above, the proclivity of this root for l-extensions is pretty evident. Burgundaz (talk) 07:47, 26 June 2021 (UTC)