Reconstruction talk:Proto-Germanic/blīwiją

Colour

I have added the sense of "colour, form" to this entry. I did not break out into a separate etymology for this, as the PIE root for both the metalic meaning and the colour meaning is still the same (bhlÁi-, *bhlwi-, *bhlī- "to shine", from PIE bhel- "shine, white". The "color" connotation is found in Old English, Old Frisian, Old Saxon, and Old Frankish (in combination). Leasnam (talk) 14:39, 6 June 2012 (UTC)

@Leasnam can you compile the "color" terms? They appear to come from a separate root. Orel would reconstruct that PWG word as *blīwā, an ōn-stem. --{{victar|talk}} 03:54, 30 July 2020 (UTC)

@Leasnam, I've detangled the WG forms and moved this entry to a ja-stem: *blīwī (“lead”), *blīu (“color”). The OHG needs attention, and probably some of the other descendants as well. --{{victar|talk}} 22:33, 31 July 2020 (UTC)

@Rua, I've been thinking this over more, and maybe a better solution would be to move this back to a *blīwą (impossible to tell from the Norse), add an Etymology 2 header to *blīu for “lead” where the OHG can live, and make *blīwī and secondary PWG derivation from *blīu (“lead”) +‎ *-i, perhaps created to disambiguation the color/lead merger. Thoughts? --{{victar|talk}} 22:15, 1 August 2020 (UTC)