Thread:User talk:CodeCat/kōpijaną/reply (2)

On second thoughts, perhaps you were justified in that variant forms aren't usually indicated in that place in a Wiktionary entry, but rather a separate entry is created, and a link to it is put somewhere in the entry. However, I can't do that, since I'm not a registered user, and just removing the information I've added for formal reasons is not constructive behaviour, to say the least. The reason why I think that the presumed existence of a class 2 variant (per Orel) is important is that it might explain why the Old Norse forms are umlautless; it seems possible that they are a reflex of such a class 2 variant and not of the class 1 variant (even though the endings are actually of class 1 in Old Norse, perhaps due to contamination of the two?). In any case, simply listing the umlautless North Germanic forms as reflexes of a regular class 1 verb is begging the question.