Talk:-fach

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Etymology[edit]

I have my doubts that -fach derives from Proto-Germanic: *-falþaz as that one already results in German: -falt. It also seems strange that both l would be dropped as well as /θ/ somehow transforming into /x/. A common origin with German: Fach seems more probable to me.--RayZa (talk) 10:27, 26 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@RayZa Seems likelier than what we have now, it certainly isn't cognate to -falt, and I have removed that part of the etymology. The semantic link to Fach is not immediately clear, though. Perhaps there's something about this in scholarly literature? — Mnemosientje (t · c) 12:59, 5 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@Mnemosientje Duden says in the etymology of German: -fach that it derived from Old High German: -vach, was probably built akin to the older Old High German: -valt and points to German: Fach. See: [1] --RayZa (talk) 15:51, 5 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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