Re: [tied] 'coke' in Polish?

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

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From: tgpedersen

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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