Thread:User talk:CodeCat/PGmc prepositions and adverbs/reply (2)

Ah. This work and other sources show -anē, but I assumed it was overlong for some reason; my mistake.

Old English shows endings in -an, but also in -ane, -one and -ene, and at least one in -enne, in the examples of Bosworth-Toller. The forms innane and ūtane have their own entries, and all the examples under the entry ufan show the four latter forms listed above. For Old Saxon, Koebler shows innan, ūtana and uppan but also lists *ovana/*obana. For Old High German, Koebler shows innana, obana, ūzana. And I'm not sure if it's the same ending or not, but ferrana seems to have a variant *ferrano(also mentioned in BT). And for Old Norse, Koebler lists innan, ofan and ūtan.

Are we looking for two endings; one in *-neh₁ and a second in *-noy?

Kroonen lists PGmc *ferrai and Lit. pérnai, as coming from *perHnoi, and mentions Sanskrit vínā as coming from *ui-neh₁, if that helps.

Edit: From more digging, Lit. pérnai seems to be related to PGmc *firnijaz. Also, I made a mistake in regards to Bosworth-Toller and ūfan, the entry I was looking at was probably meant to be marked ufane(nne), and I completely missed the main entry on ufan that showed numerous examples without -e.