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    • I don't see it that way. It is mainly Old Saxon and Old Norse from the 8th century that show this semantic shift, while Old High German shows an interpretation closer to that of Gothic. And languages do not always diverge abruptly; Germanic languages continued to interact for a very long time, and certain semantic shifts can become popular in one language or another depending on the context of the time.  And your claim that Gothic was already unintelligible to West and North Germanic languages is BS. I can suggest you the following readings: Hans Frede Nielsen: The Germanic Languages: Origins and Early Dialectal Interrelations (1989). He explicitly argues against early, sharp divisions. Don Ringe: From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (2006). He supports a rather slow and gradual divergence and considers Gothic to be very close to Proto-Germanic as it has been reconstructed. This is the "gold standard" for the timeline of Germanic divergence. The Cambridge Handbook of Germanic Linguistics: Specifically chapters on "Proto-Germanic" and "Early Runic," which describe the 1st–3rd centuries as a period of relative linguistic unity.
    • @Genava55 but þurpą has been reconstructed as village because many other languages that come from Proto-Germanic have been studied and that was the conclusion reached. Gothic is an example of East Germanic languages, which were already unintelligible to West and North Germanic languages by around 200 AD, and for almost all of them the meaning is village, þorp in Old Norse for example. That Gothic is the "earliest Germanic language with significant information" doesn't mean it is the one that kept the original meaning, this would imply that all the others changed, even when they split before the time of the Codex Argenteus.
    • In some cases by mistake, for example if you press A and there are more than one player that the nickname starts with that letter, and you did it fast, I have seen it happen a couple times 
    • Beware that a reconstruction doesn't really determinate its meaning.  The meaning is generally deduced from the descending languages inheriting the root.  A reconstruction generally means we have no evidence for this word in Proto-Germanic, we are relying on later evidence from descending languages.  The Gothic language is well documented from the 4th century AD onwards. That's the earliest Germanic language with significant information.  Most of the other Germanic languages are really documented from the 8th century AD only.  The usage and meaning of certain words can have changed significantly between two Germanic languages simply because of the time that has passed. For example the word *þurpą became þaurp in Gothic, which means farmland or farmstead, since it is used in the Gothic bible to translate the word agrós. In Old High German, the word became thorp and it seems it is used in the Codex Abrogans (8th century AD) to translate the Latin vicus or villa, not in a large village meaning but more as a farmstead. But in Old Saxon, it seems the word changed its meaning and became used to designate a hamlet or a village. 
    • It works fine for me. I just had a minor issue, a "Invalid header" warning I reported here:   Strangerly it no longer happens.
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