Re: Brugmann's Law

--- Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

> On 2008-01-18 18:39, george knysh wrote:
>
> > I only found out about the "y" word from the
> postings on this list...
>
> Derksen has Ukr. jibaty. Are you sure the it's
> completely absent from
> Ukrainian?

****GK: Not at all. It MUST be there.****

It's hard to imagine, especially since

> this verb is extremely
> combinable with prefixes, giving all sorts of
> emphatic equivalents of
> ordinary verbs. In Polish, for example, it can go
> together with na-,
> przy-, za-, roz-, od-, do-, z-, wy-, po- etc. (in
> fact, any verbal
> prefix). How can such a vigorous root go extinct?
> Taboo, perhaps... but
> it would have had to be really powerful!

****GK: That's probably what it was. I had hundreds
and hundreds of acquaintances who interpreted it as I
did. They clearly were unfamiliar with the the word,
and "Yab" for them was "Ya by" as for me. The general
sense of the sentence was grasped as explained (the
"silent" etc...)****

>
> Piotr
>
>

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