Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/ehþau

Etymology
Compound of +, the former being the only Germanic evidence of. While the Germanic form could theoretically also represent, the form is required by the Gothic reflex, where expected  is instead , which shows the first consonant must have originally been ,  or ; and further shows the Proto-Germanic form itself had not yet become  as it did in the daughter languages. For the semantics, compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Conjunction

 * 1) or, otherwise, but if

Related terms

 * (or *ifiþau?)
 * (or *ufaþau?)