Re: [tied] PIE prek'- ; prok' ; prk'- 'to ask'

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Sergejus Tarasovas" <S.Tarasovas@...>
wrote:

Thanks Sergei maybe you are right and I'm on a wrong path.
Please help me with an additional question:


a) > But *pric^ína 'cause' is Common Slavic (Ukr. <pryc^ýna>, Polish

> <przyczyna>),

Is *pric^ína 'cause' presents in Russian too?

>being a deverbative from *pric^initi 'to cause', in turn from
> *pri 'at' + *c^initi 'arrange; make, carry out' < PIE *kWei-n- (OInd.

cinóti

> 'arrange', Gr. poiéo: 'I make');

The semantism 'to-arrange' -> 'to-cause' based on the preffix *pri-
'at' is not a 'direct' one: => *pri 'at' + *kWei 'arrange' + *-n-

> it has nothing to do with PIE *prek^-

For sure you are right -> if it is a Slavic inherited word.

But if it is a loan in Slavic : 'to ask, to request' *prek'- > *prk'-
no 'reason, motive, cause' is quite Ok

>
> Sergei
>

Thanks again,
Marius