On 2008-01-18 22:31, george knysh wrote:
>> Derksen has Ukr. jibaty. Are you sure the it's
>> completely absent from
>> Ukrainian?
>
> ****GK: Not at all. It MUST be there.****
I should think so. I've googled up <jibaty> (in the standard Ukrainian
spelling, of course) and got 1210 hits, almost all of them providing
examples of perfectly natural use by native Ukrainian speakers.
Polish <jebac'>, however, yields almost ONE THOUSAND times as many
results (i.e. well over a million), even more than the Russian
infinitive (just over 800,000, but I only tried the Cyrillic spelling).
Piotr