Re: German loans in Polish

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Torsten" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

> One of those oldest loans listed by Kästner is the Christian term msza "mess", which is Pan-Slavic.

> <snip>

> The thing that puzzles me is: how would Slavs get the idea to end-stress a word borrowed from a language with generalized initial stress?

Wouldn't the yer have been lost regardless of its original stress?

Richard.