Re: German loans in Polish

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham" <richard.wordingham@...> wrote:

>
> --- 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?
>

According to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Havl%C3%ADk%27s_law
yes. Of course you can't stress a non-existent vowel, but I haven't seen stress-shift as a consequence of Havlík described anywhere. Does anybody know?


Torsten