Talk:þonne

Splitting etymologies
Since these two words are separate in other Germanic langs like 🇨🇬,, maybe it should be noted in the etymology that they were merged? ᛙᛆᚱᛐᛁᚿᛌᛆᛌ ᛭ Proto-Norsing ᛭ Ask me anything 07:49, 30 November 2022 (UTC)


 * Our current etymology lists and  as both coming from ; similarly  comes from 🇨🇬 (cf. ). Hazarasp (parlement · werkis) 10:23, 30 November 2022 (UTC)
 * really has to come from something like *þannē as well, otherwise it would look like (< ). So there should probably still be a note that these two words (*þannē 'than' and *þan 'then') merged in Old English (and other WGmc?) I hope I'm not missing anything. ᛙᛆᚱᛐᛁᚿᛌᛆᛌ ᛭ Proto-Norsing ᛭ Ask me anything 13:38, 30 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Couldn't be a generalised vowel-initial proclitic form of ?. As for the West Germanic forms, the distinction between  and  is not strictly adverbial  vs. conjunctional  (also note that  was originally a adverbial ending). If anything, the OE distinction runs the other way, as IIRC,,  is exclusively found as a conjunction; it could of course be a reduction of  rather than a retention of . Hazarasp (parlement · werkis) 01:54, 3 December 2022 (UTC)