Re: trzymac'

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:

> There is no contraction in (most of) OCS,
> and there is no contraction in Old Polish (znajø, znajesz /
> umiejø, umiejesz, etc. still up to XV century).

There shouldn't be. The forms you adduce looked like *zna"joN,
*zna"jes^I (a), *ume^"joN, *ume^"jes^I (c) before Dybo's Law, so that
the -ajV- sequences were not pretonic. Thus no early contraction.

Sergei