On 2008-01-18 18:39, george knysh wrote:
> I only found out about the "y" word from the postings on this list...
Derksen has Ukr. jibaty. Are you sure the it's completely absent from
Ukrainian? It's hard to imagine, especially since this verb is extremely
combinable with prefixes, giving all sorts of emphatic equivalents of
ordinary verbs. In Polish, for example, it can go together with na-,
przy-, za-, roz-, od-, do-, z-, wy-, po- etc. (in fact, any verbal
prefix). How can such a vigorous root go extinct? Taboo, perhaps... but
it would have had to be really powerful!
Piotr