Thread:User talk:CodeCat/Proto-Germanic ancestor of meðan

According to my source (Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon: Íslensk orðsifjabók, 1989), comes from (the ancestor of), *þa-n-, instrumental of , and a particle *ī. Cognates are, among others, Swedish, (Old Swedish mæþan, emæþan, æmæþan), Danish , , ,  (Old Danish (e) mæthæn, j mæþæn), Faroese , , Gothic , Old English mid þon þe. The *-ī seems to be primarily based on Gothic, but might be considered supported by Faroese. I don’t know what this particle or suffix represents. SAOB posits a form miþþanī; do you find this plausible? Should we perhaps rather split the words, as in Old English? What would it then be? Perhaps *midi þan(ō) ī?