Reconstruction talk:Proto-Germanic/dīkaz

Alternative etymology
Kroonen traces this back to <  <, whence it would be related to words for "wall" such as Ancient Greek , Serbo-Croatian , Old Prussian  (with metathesis). Anglom (talk) 21:44, 22 May 2014 (UTC)

Old Norse Descendants in English & Scots
The entry for 🇨🇬 (we have dike as an alternative spelling) traces its origin to 🇨🇬, from 🇨🇬. This fits well with the hard k and the northern distribution. I'm sure that also applies to the Scots word. That doesn't change anything about ditch, of course, which is obviously from the Old English word given here. Chuck Entz (talk) 15:45, 30 September 2018 (UTC)