Thread:User talk:CodeCat/Proto-Germanic reflex/reply (8)

has a Germanic descendant,, so it's likely that that part of the compound would have remained recognisable. Seen as separate words, the two would have ended up as, assuming that the first word would have remained a consonant stem (which is somewhat unlikely). It's more likely, perhaps, that it had become a kind of cranberry morpheme attached to the still-recognisable second word, giving something like. That might have survived into Old English as, giving modern. Alternatively, the first part might have been reanalysed as a vowel stem, giving or. Either of those might have given the same outcome in Old English, but I don't know if the nasal spirant law would apply to a syncopated vowel in this way. In Old High German, the result would be, modern or similar. In Old Norse, the result would be.