Talk:Ablaut derivatives

Hey, I'm Hǽltam from the Anglish Discord server and I have been following your pages for a while now and I do think they're all really great :D. However, I'm just wondering about something right now.

It's come to my attention recently that some Strong Class 2 verbs seemingly have/had Weak Class 2 derivatives stemming all the way from Proto-Germanic. I found only 3 examples, but there might be more out there as I hadn't checked every SC2 verb.

Strong vs Weak: 1. "To neet" (From OE nēotan (or neótan?), https://bosworthtoller.com/23575) vs "To note" (From OE notian, https://bosworthtoller.com/23934) 2. "To fleet" (From OE flēotan (or fleótan?), https://bosworthtoller.com/10924) vs "To float" (From OE flotian, https://bosworthtoller.com/45279) 3. "To smeek" (From OE smēocan (or smeócan?), https://bosworthtoller.com/28118) vs "To smoke" (From OE smocian, https://bosworthtoller.com/28174)

However, as their meanings are seemingly mostly identical (and different Germanic languages seemingly retain different combinations of the above), it makes me wonder what the relationship between these pairs are? Are they etymological causative pairs (whose causatives have lost their causative meaning)? Are the Weak Class 2 verbs just ancient verbified nouns from all the way in Proto-Germanic (as Wiktionary traces them unto Proto-Germanic)? Are there other Strong Class 2 (or other strong verbs) that follow(ed) a similar pattern, having a weak derivative in this manner?

Thank you in advance.