Reconstructing Gothic

[d.faltin@hispeed.ch [gothic-l]]

Hi Edmund, 

 your point regarding Gothic aithei (mother) is well taken and valid. However, just to add Old High German also preserved this form as "eide" meaning mother (in a certain legal context) and "fotar eidi" meaning nurse, i.e. woman nursing a child.
 The problem would have been to decide which form the Goths would have used. My guess is that they also had a world like *modar, but it was simply not recorded.
 

 Best
 Dirk
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