Reconstruction talk:Proto-Germanic/bō-

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How reliable is this reconstruction? It looks pretty much ad-hoc.. --Ivan Štambuk (talk) 18:03, 7 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I have no idea. It doesn't seem to make much sense to me either. —CodeCat 18:14, 7 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I first came across it with Skeat if im not mistaken, but Koebler has it, as *ba-, *bab-, *bō-, and *bōbô-, and i may have scrounged up different parts from here and there. What looks most unsound about it? Leasnam (talk) 19:01, 7 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Looks like a nursery word (cf. atta, amma, dada, booboo etc.)Nayrb Rellimer (talk) 15:37, 6 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Evenso, we have a reconstruction for *átta Leasnam (talk) 15:43, 6 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]