Re: [tied] trzymac'

On 2006-05-28 00:51, Miguel Carrasquer wrote:

> Brückner is no great help, he only remarks that the word is
> "wyl/a,cznie nasze", but doesn't offer an etymology.
>
> The only possible connection I can imagine is with Lith.
> turé:ti "to have". The Slavic equivalent could have been
> originally *tureih1-mi "I hold" > *t(U)rim(I). Would it be
> too far-fetched to derive *trim-ati from such a 1st person
> sg.?

My first intuitive guess was that there was some kind of connection
between *trimati and *imati, the iterative counterpart of *eNti, 1.sg.
*imoN 'take, grasp' (< PIE *h1em-), but I can't make any sense of the
onset cluster.

Piotr