Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *akScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_ak
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Lexikon der indogermanischen Partikeln und PronominalstämmeGeorge E.DunkelUniversitätsverlag Winter22014𐬀𐬝then; butаand; butжеbut, indeed, preciselyγεat least, just, precisely; indeed*átbut, yetatbut, yet-geemphatic particleoand; butअथthen; but; now*geindeed, at any rate, in fact
conjunctionbut, however; rather, but instead, especially introducing a correction or contrastProbably from pre-Germanic *at-ge, from Proto-Indo-European *át + *ge, originally ‘but indeed’ or ‘but rather’. The development presumably involved assimilation in the consonant cluster and subsequent degemination: *at-ge > *aþke > akke > *ak, although the exact phonological sequence is uncertain and this particular assimilation has no known parallel in Germanic. Cognates of the first particle include Latin at, Vedic Sanskrit अथ, Avestan 𐬀𐬝, Old Church Slavonic а, and Lithuanian o, while those of the second particle include Ancient Greek γε, Old Church Slavonic же, and Lithuanian -geDunkel 2014: 87–88, 279–80.