Reconstruction talk:Proto-Germanic/blōþą

Reconstruction
I'm not really sure why this is reconstructed as rather than. May I ask why? All the forms seem to point to the latter. Anglom (talk) 18:48, 5 October 2014 (UTC)
 * West Germanic requires -d-, Old Norse could be either, Gothic requires -þ-. —CodeCat 19:01, 5 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Gothic -d- devoices to -þ- word-finally though, yes? As from ? Anglom (talk) 19:14, 5 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Yes, it does, but that's not relevant here. —CodeCat 19:44, 5 October 2014 (UTC)

Etymology
Further support for the given etymology can be found here: (https://clics.clld.org/graphs/subgraph_239), as it strangely seems that flower, red and blood are pretty close in terms of colexifications. Burgundaz (talk) 06:02, 27 August 2022 (UTC)