Principles of reconstruction.

[llama_nom]

Good ideas.

> > > > > 4. tugga "to chew"
> > 
> > *'tuggwon'.
> 
> PG *kewwanan > Go. *kiggwan, OE cíowan, ON tyggva?

*kiggwan: kaggw, kuggwun, kuggwans (like bliggwan). Reading further, I
see that the initual dental in ON tyggva, Sw. tugga is supposed to
have arisen by dissimilation. In favour of *kiggwan, the stong verb is
more basic, and the dissimilated forms secondary and limited to North
Germanic. Also in his entry for Modern High German 'kauen', Grimm
reconstructs Gothic *kiggwan. So all in all, this looks preferable.

> > > > > 6. däggdjur "mammal"
> > > 
> > The complication here is knowing how to make the compound.  The 
> Gothic
> > verb is 'daddjan' "to suckle", so maybe *'daddi-dius'? That's
> > supposing we can treat the verb as ja- and jo-stem nouns are treated
> > when they form the first element of compounds. I'm not sure if there
> > are any examples of this with a Weak Class 1 verb though.
> 
> daddjando dius?

That's a neat solution, and it even scans as a line of alliterative
verse. I second this for the official Gothic word for "mammal"!

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