Reconstruction talk:Proto-Germanic/leuhtą

Reconstruction

The nominative/accusative stem was *leuhad (Gothic liuhaþ), while the oblique stem was *leuht-, basically equivalent to pre-Germanic *léwk-ot, genitive *l(e)uk-tés; although the strong case *-ot would have originally been reduced to *-o/a or even *-∅, it would seem to have been reintroduced based on some other model, presumably based on direct derivations like *leuhadjaną(~> *leuhadīniz) or other t-stems that were secondarily thematicized to *-ot-om, or some such.

I was not completely convinced this paradigm was the correct one until I came across a similar situation in Proto-Celtic, albeit with a slightly different personalizing t-stem, in *genetā, "girl" probably originally "daughter", which with the Gaulish forms geneta, genata and gnata (Matasović, 2013, "genetā", pages 157-158), looks like it originally declined as pre-Celtic *ǵenh₁-et-, oblique *ǵ(e)nh₁-t-é-, giving Celtic *genetā, oblique *genatā-/*ganatā- or even *gnātā. Burgundaz (talk) 04:02, 26 May 2021 (UTC)

Hmm, this seems somewhat plausible. Does anyone else make mention of it? —Rua (mew) 09:16, 26 May 2021 (UTC)