Re: [tied] 'coke' in Polish?

From: Petusek
Message: 39067
Date: 2005-07-05

If you mean the plant, Czech, for example, uses "koka", which does alternate (e.g koce = D/L sg.). I'm not sure about Polish, but it could be similar. Hope this'll help you a bit, at least. ;) As for the drink (coca-cola), we use "kola" in Czech.
 
Pet'usek
----- Original Message -----
From: tgpedersen
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 12:11 PM
Subject: [tied] 'coke' in Polish?


Since I think PIE *k^ etc. alternated *k/*c^ depending on the
succeeding sound (consonant/back vowel vs. front vowel) and that *kW
etc. alternated similarly *kW/k, while plain *k etc. did not
alternate, since all *k's were found in loans, I would like to know
how a real language with alternating dorsals would handle a loan.

Therefore:
How is eg. 'coke' (as in 'cocaine'; assuming it's a recent loanword in
Polish) inflected in all cases in Polish? Does the -k- alternate (eg.
with -c- ?) where it would in native Polish words?


Torsten