Germanic nerdism
From User talk:Rua
Bit of a long shot, but you're the one person that comes to my mind that might know something about this topic. PGM *ne survies into Middle Low German and Dutch, also with metathesis, giving the written forms en, ne, enne, ene. I'm somewhat convinced the last two are just hypercorrectisms in dialects which have already lost /ə/. Do you have any knowledge or educated guess on how they would be pronounced? Of couse we can assume <e> to be [ə] in unstressed positions, but at least in GML monosyllables always also have a stressed form.