Reconstruction talk:Proto-West Germanic/teuʀōn

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@Leasnam How can there be -iu- in this when there's no umlauting factor? —CodeCat 14:09, 7 October 2016 (UTC)

I wondered that myself. This is why I added the Alternative form. But most places I looked reconstruct it with iu, and one of the OE forms has ȳ (from earlier īe, which makes sense to me). Taken together, I figured it must be accurate... ? Leasnam (talk) 14:33, 7 October 2016 (UTC)

Also looking at the proposed PIE stem, wouldn't ew normally yield au ? Leasnam (talk) 14:36, 7 October 2016 (UTC)

Now that I think of it, is it possible that this was originally *tiuzijaną, a wk class 3 ? Leasnam (talk) 14:38, 7 October 2016 (UTC)