Thread:User talk:CodeCat/Reinhard, Reynard, and PGmc

I reverted this edit to Reinhard because the second part was totally wrong, and because I could see the whole etymology had problems that needed deeper reworking. I cobbled together a preliminary fix using the entry for ragin in Lehmann's Gothic Etymological Dictionary, but there's some important stuff missing.

To start with, I wasn't sure of the proper format for a morpheme only attested as part of proper nouns. That's the issue that screwed up the etymology to start with: tried to avoid it by treating the term as a compound of PGmc + OHG. Which brings up the second issue: I'm not that great with PGmc, but it looks like the original PGmc form *ragina should have an ogonek on it, at the very least. I removed it from the etymology, to be on the safe side, but it's also in the etymologies at Reynard, renard, and Rainer- there again, juxtaposed with OHG. Finally, there's the matter of Gothic ragin. It's currently a romanization-only entry pointing to, but Lehman has no asterisk in front of it, and gives citations to usage- so there must be at least inflected forms in existence.

Would you be so kind as to: 1) Finish my cleanup of Reinhard (or tell me how to fix it myself), 2) Resolve the issue of PGmc *ragina, and 3) create an entry at . I could probably figure out 1) and 3), eventually, but it would take a lot of legwork to get up to speed and to find the information. I don't have any references to even start with 2). Thanks! Chuck Entz (talk) 22:36, 13 July 2013 (UTC)