Re: Initial stress

> ----- Original Message -----
> Well, if no one has a better answer, I propose that Czech and
> Hungarian had a Germanic subtrate ("Markomannian"?). And Polish,

with

> penultimate stress (and Moravian?) would therefore have a Celtic
> substrate. (No, resistance is futile! ;-) )

--- In cybalist@..., Piotr Gasiorowski <piotr.gasiorowski@...>
wrote:

> Given that the Polish pattern of penult stress developed about the

fifteenth century, it's one of the most remarkably late dates for
Celtic presence in Poland.

>
> Piotr
>

Yup, tough customers, those Celts. BTW, where did the pattern spread
from, and what was the pattern of stress before?

Torsten