Reconstruction talk:Proto-Germanic/twiz-

Gothic dis-
Gothic seems to have almost completely supplanted native ; aside from that, some of the forms in  match up with the West Germanic forms in. Is it acceptable to use the Gothic forms in reconstructions prefixed with, so long as we note the replacement? Or would it be better to leave the Gothic forms out of it altogether? Anglom (talk) 05:45, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

Two prefixes
The meaning of "two, in two" is correct for this prefix, but the meaning "apart, separate" is probably better rendered as *tiz-, cf. Latin dis-, Ancient Greek dia- (< diha- < dis-a-). This allowed an easy re-rendering of Germanic *tiz- to dis- in Gothic, whether through contact with Latin or Celtic. Compare the influence on du-, which represents a re-rendered Germanic *tō-, as if from Celtic *dū-, earlier *dō-. Anglom (talk) 07:23, 7 February 2020 (UTC)