Re: [tied] trzymac'

On Pon, svibanj 29, 2006 10:07 pm, Sergejus Tarasovas reče:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:
>
>> It seems that Polish, like
>> some other Slavic langauges, resisted contraction with a nasal vowel.
>> However, it's a matter of relative preference, not an ironclad rule,
> cf.
>> regular contraction in feminine instr.sg.: *nogojoN, *dus^ejoN,
>> *kostIjoN give <noga,>, <dusza,>, <kos'cia,>.
>
> Incidentally, all these words are (c) and thus had the ictus on the
> last syllable (*-oN) in Common Slavic -- exactly the case where
> contraction is least likely:
> *nogŕ (c), *nogojóN
> *dus^ŕ (c), *dus^ejóN
> *ko``stI (c), *kostIjóN
>
> Analogy on (a) and (b) words?

OK, but you can hardly expect different instrumental forms just according
to the accentual paradigm. That kind of thing would have been leveled very
soon.

Mate