Re: trzymac'

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

>
> On 2006-05-28 16:02, Sergejus Tarasovas wrote:
>
> > ... a predecessor of *jIma"ti ...
>
> Shouldn't it be *imati (vs. *eNti, *[j]ImoN), with long root vocalism

in

> PSl.? Like *dyxati, *-mirati, *-tinati vs. *dUxnoNti, *merti

(*mIroN),

> *teNti (*tInoN).

But then, what would one make of Old Czech <jmaìti> 'take prisoner',
Russ. <pojmat'> 'catch', Slovak <mat'> 'have', Ukr. <maìty> 'have'? Cf.
Derksen's _Slavic *jI-_ in _Dutch Contributions to the Thirteenth
International Congress of Slavists: Ljubljana, August 15-21, 2003 -
Linguistics_, Amsterdam-New York, Rodopi, 2003.

Sergei