frawjōn
Fragment of a discussion from User talk:Rua
No comments about zacht, but vijf and Süd are somewhat irregular.
- vijf
- foif#Alemannic German isn't really "North Sea Germanic", I suppose. Earlier Appendix:Proto-Germanic/fimf mentions "an irregular consonant change" from
- Appendix:Proto-Indo-European/pénkʷe, which gives
- Appendix:Proto-Celtic/kʷinkʷe, which gives
- Gaulish: pempe
- Brythonic:
- Breton: pemp
- Welsh: pump
- opposed to
- Goidelic: *kwe(n)kwe
- and Italic, which gives
- Oscan: pompe
- Umbrian: pumpe
- opposed to
- Latin: quinque#Latin
- Appendix:Proto-Celtic/kʷinkʷe, which gives
- I think Germanic:fimf, Celtic:pempe/pemp/pump, Italic:pompe/pumpe differ in a visibly obvious way from other Indo-European languages.
- Süd
- I would almost dare to say that sunt#Old High German is the odd man out. We have suðr#Old Norse (a bit early for Low German influence) and Romance languanges often have sud/sur (even sud#Romanian)