Re: Brugmann's Law

> 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!

Also in Czech it is not much used, although the older generation knows it
well from the army slang influenced by Slovak.
As an auxiliary verb, the derivatons of "fart" are preffered,
thus for "put" is more often used "prdnout" than "jebnout"
and for "tell off" is used "sprdnout" rather than "zjebat".
And as a fully semantic word, the rough term is "mrdat"
and a slightly politer word is "s^ukat" (which of course is the source of
hilarity
when we hear some Polish sentence such as "I am looking for your wife." :-)