Re: [tied] trzymac'

On Sun, 28 May 2006 23:39:17 +0200, Miguel Carrasquer
<mcv@...> wrote:

>On Sat, 27 May 2006 20:00:11 +0000, Sergejus Tarasovas
><S.Tarasovas@...> wrote:
>
>>I've just realized I don't know and can't think of the etymology of
>>Polish <trzymac'> 'hold'. Does it continue Common Slavic *tri(:)ma"ti
>>(b? -- in view of Kashubian <tr^îma,> 'I hold' with î vs. å~ in the
>>infinitive) or is it a borrowing?
>
>To return to the original point, the Kashubian/Slovincian
>forms seem fit Mate's two-mora-rule (pretonic length is
>shortened before two or more morae) quite well. tri:má:ti
>(final open syllables count as 1 mora) has 3 morae after the
>length

That is true.

>, while tri:móN has one.

Nonsense, it's t(vI)ri:má:joN, which should have shortened
the /i:/ if it was pretonic.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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