Reconstruction talk:Proto-Germanic/drinkaną

@Leasnam, Rua, victar, Mnemosientje The etymology in this entry, added a few years ago by an IP, has a vastly more certain tone than the one in drink; other etymological dictionaries seem even more sceptical of cognates outside Germanic. Should this etymology be revised or removed? ←₰-→ Lingo ^Bingo _Dingo (talk) 14:07, 11 March 2020 (UTC)

I decided to just copy the etymology whole-cloth from drink. The two supposed pieces of evidence we had work against each other .... if we've found a PIE root, it's cognate to draw and the meanings had to do with pulling things .... but if we've found a cognate in Baltic, and that cognate's meaning relates to water (it seems to mean "moisten"), then that greatly weakens the possibility of it being cognate to draw.

I dont know if there's a well-established term for that sort of argument that gets weaker when you add more supposed evidence .... but this is a classic example. —Soap— 03:03, 27 September 2022 (UTC)