Sievers's law in Germanic was clearly conditioned on morphological grounds as well as phonological, since suffixes were treated as separate words if they were recognised as separate morphological segments. For example, the suffix *"-atjaną" had a nonsyllabic "-j-" because the preceding "-at-" was light, as in Old English "-ettan", where the gemination is evidence for "-j-". On the other hand, *"-ārijaz" had "-ij-" because the syllable "-ār-" was heavy, as in Gothic "-areis", which would have been *"-arjis" if the suffix had contained "-j-" instead. This happened even though in fully formed words these "-j-" and "-ij-" would have been preceded by two syllables. Examples of the opposite - that is, multiple-syllable stems that were not segmentable - can also be found. *"hamiþiją" ("shirt") clearly contained "-ij-", showing that *"hamiþ-" in its entirety was analysed as the stem, rather than just *"-iþ-" since there was no such suffix in Proto-Germanic. This is evidenced by the Old High German "hemidi", where *"hemiddi" would be expected if the original form had "-j-".