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Proto-language for the Germanic branch of the Indo-European languages
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What is the name of Proto-Germanic e/ē lengthening?
There are hundreds of sound laws associated with any language, they won't all get their own pithy name. This is just "the lengthening that happens when an ō-stem noun is derived from a strong verb". Y …
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Why Gothic fairweitjan doesn't have an ablaut?
Not all Germanic class 1 weak verbs (that is, the ones formed with -j- or -ij-) are causatives; many are a second, occasionally more complicated category, which I'll just call "other".
The causatives …
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Is Proto-Balto-Slavic zero-grade from long zero-grade i?
As three seconds of looking it up (probably in the same place you found those forms to begin with) shows:
PBS *pílˀnas < PIE *pl̥h₁nós > PGmc *fullaz
PBS *wilkás < PIE *wĺ̥kʷos > PGmc *wulfaz
PBS *źí …
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Why is it called proto-Germanic?
It's also worth pointing out the term originates in German as Urgermanisch or Protogermanisch, and that the German for German is Deutsch, not Germanisch. It was intended to be more neutral w.r.t. livi …
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