Thread:User talk:CodeCat/Old High German weak verbs/reply

We could add diacritics, but I actually doubt somewhat whether the endings had long vowels over the whole of the OHG period. If you think about it, it's very unlikely for a long ō like in the class 2 weak ending -ōn to suddenly become a schwa -en in the change to Middle High German. A more likely sequence would be ō > o > schwa. I'm pretty sure that the vowels shortened during the literary OHG period, we just have no way of knowing where and when. Maybe we can just write them as long vowels, as long as we realise that it only applies to earlier OHG.

As for the templates, I think it might be worth writing them in Lua. Lua is much better suited to working on bits of words. For example, it is able to look inside words, it can replace parts of words with others, and so on. Module:nl-verb can determine whether to add the ending -d or -t in verbs just by looking at the last letter of the stem you give as the parameter. Templates can't do that at all.