Reconstruction talk:Proto-Germanic/wapsō

Most of these have -e-, so why was the page moved? Even Latin has it. —CodeCat 01:22, 8 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Since the PIE form is with -o-, the natural outcome would be -a-. -e- would come from contamination from ...Should we move it back? It just seems easier to explain the -a- > -e- ; but not the converse Leasnam (talk) 01:29, 8 August 2016 (UTC)
 * There's more oddness going on though. Grimm's law excludes the combination "ps" since it would become "fs". I don't know of any other Germanic words with "ps" in them. —CodeCat 01:39, 8 August 2016 (UTC)
 * I have seen a reconstruction as (i.e.  or ), where perhaps in some it collapsed later to form  first...I dunno, I generally defer to you for more insight into such matters :) Leasnam (talk) 01:51, 8 August 2016 (UTC)

I would support this actually deriving from an irregular consonant stem ~, along with a PWG derivative  (because WG loves throwing  on plant and animal names), which would account for the irregularities. Proto-Samic looks to be a borrowing from the genitive. -- 02:54, 11 September 2020 (UTC)