Thread:User talk:CodeCat/OHG fust *funstiz/reply

It is a bit unusual, but even Dutch has, also without a nasal. However, there may be an explanation. This word is often thought to derive from the Indo-European root for "five", or from a root *pewg-, and in that case the expected Germanic term would actually. And in that case, the nasal would have been lost in all Germanic languages. But the change of nh > ¯h is a very late change in Proto-Germanic, and thus the loss of -h- in this word must have been later still. And yet, it happened in all dialects?