Reconstruction talk:Gothic/𐌱𐍂𐌿𐌶𐌳𐍉𐌽

s, z or r?

This term can't have s, judging by the Old Saxon and OHG cognates. z normally becomes r in West Germanic. But the Romance loans have s, which doesn't really fit. I wonder if that is a sign that the change of z to r hadn't happened at the time of borrowing. If that's true, then that would have a lot of implications for the morphology of Frankish as well. —CodeCat 23:49, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

That, or it was influenced by *brust, *burst (“a bristle, prick”), ultimately from the same root. --Victar (talk) 00:52, 25 May 2013 (UTC)

@Rua, Victar, Leasnam, Anglom: At Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/bruzdōną it implies that the Romance loans are from Gothic *𐌱𐍂𐌿𐌶𐌳𐍉𐌽 (*bruzdōn), not from West Germanic at all. I'm currently in the process of moving our Frankish entries to Proto-West Germanic, but I'm tempted to move this page to the Gothic reconstruction instead. What do other people think? —Mahāgaja · talk 20:19, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

In the absence of any objection (indeed, any discussion at all), I'm moving it to Gothic now. —Mahāgaja · talk 14:06, 22 March 2020 (UTC)