Reconstruction talk:Proto-Germanic/drītaną

Driss

 * It's true that Driss is no direct descendant, but as far as I know, it's a recognizable practice to use brackets for indicating such an indirect relation of a word. --Nin-TD (talk) 14:05, 10 July 2017 (UTC)
 * I'm not a fan of that practice. Driss could be listed on its own Proto-Germanic page as a descendant, and words can't be descendants of two different terms. —CodeCat 14:20, 10 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Driss is derived from the verb, I doubt it already existed as an independent noun in Proto-Germanic. Maybe you mean it's no descendant of "drieße"? In this case yes, but it's quite obvious the noun has been derived from the past stem -i-; otherwise it would exist as Drieß/Dreiß nowadays. An example in your native language would be the word ondanks, which is listed in brackets as well here. --Nin-TD (talk) 14:39, 10 July 2017 (UTC)