Reconstruction talk:Proto-Germanic/lanō

Reconstruction
The PIE root for Greek is reconstructed as  by Beekes. A reconstruction might work if the medial laryngeal were syllabic. If metathesis were involved,, we could reconstruct , which would be more or less cognate to 🇨🇬, (as in Beekes), whence  was derived. I'm not sure about the order of pretonic shortening before resonants vs loss of glide in long diphthongs in open syllables, but hypothetically it could go >  >  >. Anglom (talk) 07:14, 13 July 2015 (UTC)
 * would presumably just give, I don't know under which conditions the u would be lost, if any. —CodeCat 13:11, 13 July 2015 (UTC)
 * The glide should be lost only in an open syllable: <,  <  (compare the zero-grades in Icelandic  and Old Swedish ). But then again, I don't know whether pretonic shortening came before or after this; if it came before then it could only give , I think. Now that I think about it, it seems too much of a stretch on my part to link it with the Greek formation. Anglom (talk) 16:21, 13 July 2015 (UTC)