Reconstruction talk:Proto-West Germanic/aisku


 * I wondering if this word is actually as a result of a conflation of and . --  20:43, 25 August 2020 (UTC)
 * I don't know what the authorities say, but Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/h₂eys- mentions a, so I feel like the most likely explanation is that there was an exceptional full-grade alongside the expected zero-grade , at least in the dialects ancestral to PBS and PGmc. Then there's ; maybe aisku has a similar history, e.g. syncopated from a denominative aizasku or something. —Mahāgaja · talk 21:07, 25 August 2020 (UTC)
 * I should explain that my comments above actually apply to the verb rather than to this noun, but either way, I think an old full grade (for whatever reason) is more likely than conflation with an unrelated word, especially since there's no direct evidence for a zero-grade  in Germanic anyway. —Mahāgaja · talk 21:11, 25 August 2020 (UTC)
 * PBS isn't really a thing. Lithuanian has a full grade noun, and a denominative verb from it, but the Slavic is zero-grade. Lipp thinks the East Baltic full-grade is actually a secondary prefix, and Smoczyński suggests.
 * My larger point though was that the two Germanic words look as though they merged in meaning. None of the other cognates have the definition "to claim", rendering the OHG synonyms  and . --  06:20, 26 August 2020 (UTC)