Reconstruction talk:Proto-Germanic/wiþrą

Reconstruction as *wiþra
I wasn't really sure that this form was correct, as Gothic should have lost short, word-final *-a. On the other hand, Gothic probably could have restored the word-final -a from the compound form, yes?

Also, Kroonen doesn't list it as being the neuter accusative form, that was just the only way the form seemed to make sense. Anglom (talk) 18:24, 9 September 2014 (UTC)
 * I'm reconsidering this reconstruction, at least with the ending in *-ra I've been using for this and other adverbs. I was considering instead moving them to reconstructions in *-er, but I've also been considering *-rą, in view of the Sanskrit formations, , , , which mirror Germanic , , , remarkably well, though not perfectly.


 * In Gothic, would have given, but would still have remained  productively in compounds, which would have allowed the compound form to replace the inherited form. I assume that the same happened with Gothic , though I don't know if it's attested in compounds in the corpus we have.


 * The only possible evidence I can find that the forms didn't end in *-er is Old English /, which seems to have an epenthetic back vowel rather than the front vowel expected otherwise, cf. . Anglom (talk) 22:43, 20 December 2014 (UTC)