Reconstruction talk:Proto-Germanic/ajją
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Old Saxon?[edit]
It is said one word for "egg" in Old Saxon and Middle Low German was egg, but does anyone have any evidence to prove that? was it a Norse or Anglic borrowing?--(Neptune Purple Heart) 22:38, 20 August 2014 (UTC)
- The Deutsches Wörterbuch gives also Old High German agi (sic!), alongside normal ei, plural eigir. The form eig- wouldn't surprise me. The -g-, if irregular (I don't know), could simply be a gliding sound. I can't find egg, though. It's probably wrong.