Re: [tied] trzymac'

On 2006-05-27 22:00, Sergejus Tarasovas wrote:

> I've just realized I don't know and can't think of the etymology of
> Polish <trzymac'> 'hold'. Does it continue Common Slavic *tri(:)ma"ti
> (b? -- in view of Kashubian <tr^îma,> 'I hold' with î vs. å~ in the
> infinitive) or is it a borrowing?

A good question --- I can't think of an etymology either! Btw, in
Northern Kashubian dialects it still has the archaic ending of the 1st
conjugation <-aje,> (elsewhere one finds innovated <-óm> like Polish
<trzymam> or analogical <-ie,> today).

Piotr