Re: trzymac'

On 2006-05-28 19:57, Sergejus Tarasovas wrote:

> But then, what would one make of Old Czech <jmáti> 'take prisoner',
> Russ. <pojmat'> 'catch', Slovak <mat'> 'have', Ukr. <máty> '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.

But Pol. <pojmac'> 'capture' was <poimac'> before the 18th century,
and the unprefixed verb has always been <imac'> (vs. <miec'> 'have' <
*[j]Im-e^-ti). I suspect early confusion between *(j)I- and *(j)i-,
made worse by the fact that both occurred among the *h1em- word-family
in Slavic. At any rate, zero-grade "vr.ddhi" is expected in the iterative.

Piotr