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Why are Proto-West Germanic hwaʀ and OHG wēr cognate?
What is the kind of mutation a > ē?

prostorech
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  • What do you mean by "why"? Are you asking for the proto-form and derivation; or for the evidence that they are; or something else, and what? – user6726 Jan 08 '21 at 14:58
  • @user6726 I am asking for the evidence that Proto-West Germanic a and OHG ē may be cognate without i-mutation. – prostorech Jan 08 '21 at 17:55

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*a > *e before *z in NWGmc (see Ringe). Another example is *razdō > WGmc *rerdu > OE reord (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/reord).

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