Reconstruction talk:Proto-Germanic/blīwiją

Colour
I have added the sense of "colour, form" to this entry. I did not break out into a separate etymology for this, as the PIE root for both the metalic meaning and the colour meaning is still the same (bhlÁi-, *bhlwi-, *bhlī- "to shine", from PIE bhel- "shine, white". The "color" connotation is found in Old English, Old Frisian, Old Saxon, and Old Frankish (in combination). Leasnam (talk) 14:39, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
 * can you compile the "color" terms? They appear to come from a separate root. Orel would reconstruct that PWG word as, an ōn-stem. -- 03:54, 30 July 2020 (UTC)
 * , I've detangled the WG forms and moved this entry to a ja-stem:, . The OHG needs attention, and probably some of the other descendants as well. -- 22:33, 31 July 2020 (UTC)
 * , I've been thinking this over more, and maybe a better solution would be to move this back to a (impossible to tell from the Norse), add an Etymology 2 header to  for “lead” where the OHG can live, and make  and secondary PWG derivation from, perhaps created to disambiguation the color/lead merger. Thoughts? --  22:15, 1 August 2020 (UTC)