Reconstruction talk:Proto-West Germanic/tigā

I started a sentence in the edit summary, but then I accidentally pressed enter. So the oldest attestation of the MLG is 13th century and while it could theoretically have been borrowed very early, the vowel is certainly no proof of that. First of all, MLG simply didn't have short i in open syllables, so it could only have become ē or ī. And then speakers living near isogloss borders were usually aware of the sound correspondences and adapted the words accordingly (sometimes leading to hypercorrection, of course). Finally, some East Central German dialects actually developed short i to ē as well. 90.186.72.174 01:36, 20 March 2020 (UTC)

Ishkashimi

@Victar, in literature, Ishkashimi dec /dets/ and its Iranian friends usually are not connected to the Germanic and Armenian (e.g. {{R:wbl:ESVJa|page=164}}). Is the connection your original research? --Vahag (talk) 07:08, 15 September 2020 (UTC)

I see now that it was added by @Karkat Kitsune at [1]. --Vahag (talk) 12:24, 15 September 2020 (UTC)

@Vahagn Petrosyan: Yeah, I pinged you just for sources to the Armenian connection. --{{victar|talk}} 15:59, 15 September 2020 (UTC)