Johan Schalin, PhD<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://toot.community/@yvanspijk" class="u-url mention">@<span>yvanspijk</span></a></span> I’m not sure the as-stems were that productive in the earliest loans at all. Neither trisyllables (trisyllabic stem types were rare in Pre-Finnic). <br />A Finnic word like ”kuningas” is hardly from <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/ProtoGermanic" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ProtoGermanic</span></a>, at least not early <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/PGmc" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PGmc</span></a>. NW-Germanic yes. In fact I don’t think it even occurs in Gothic (it was reiks!) so NW-Germanic is the probable age of this loan (despite the misinformation in all the handbooks).</p>