poedyvaet

[Alina Israeli]

My favorite is Баба Яга which becomes бабка Ёжка, so  
there is no reason except for history to keep the letter Я.

Yes, of course поёдывает is a bit facetious. There is also  
подъёдывает.

АИ

On Aug 30, 2012, at 9:42 PM, Jules Levin wrote:

> On 8/30/2012 5:04 PM, William Ryan wrote:
>> Is поёдывает a facetious usage? Etymologically the ё  
>> should be é, as in poéduet.
>>
>> Will Ryan
>
> With the underlying phonological basis for distinguishing je and  
> jat' lost, the alternation is purely morphological and irregular.    
> Note such "pairs" as /zhony/ ~ /zhenshchina/ [assuming the /n/ of  
> the later is optionally unpalatalized].   I suspect for native  
> speakers a sense of the style level of the word helps determine.  Is  
> pojedyvaet colloquial? Or is it more likely in scientific/technical/ 
> philosophical writing?
> Jules Levin
> Los Angeles
>
>
>
>>
>> On 30/08/2012 14:23, Alina Israeli wrote:
>>> поёдывает
>>>
>>> On Aug 30, 2012, at 4:33 AM, Gladney, Frank Y wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear Russian speakers,
>>>>
>>>> Google.ru offers numerous attestations for the verb form  
>>>> _poedyvaet_ 'eats'. How is the root vowel pronounced?
>>>>
>>>> Frank Y. Gladney
>>> Alina Israeli
>>> Associate Professor of Russian
>>> LFS, American University
>>> 4400 Massachusetts Ave.
>>> Washington DC 20016
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>>> aisrael at american.edu
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Associate Professor of Russian
LFS, American University
4400 Massachusetts Ave.
Washington DC 20016
(202) 885-2387 	fax (202) 885-1076
aisrael at american.edu

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