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

> [mailto:cybalist@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of alexandru_mg3

> You can add to this root Romanian(<Dacian) pricinã 'cause,
> motive; reason' < PIE *prk'-ino (or simple *prk'-no)
> ...
> NOTE: Romanian 'pricinã' is wrong considered by DEX from
> Bulgarian pric^na.
>
> If Bulgarian 'pric^na' would be of Slavic origin the
> resulting Slavic form would be:
>
> a) nil grade *prk'- -> CommonSlavic *p&rs- (And Not *pri- as
> in Bulgarian pric^na)
>
> b) o-grade *prok'- -> CommonSlavic *pros- (see OCS prositi etc..)
>
> c) e-grade *prek'- -> CommonSlavic *pres-
>
> As you can see Bulgarian pric^na cannot fit any of the above forms

But *pric^ína 'cause' is Common Slavic (Ukr. <pryc^ýna>, Polish
<przyczyna>), 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'); it has nothing to do with PIE *prek^-.

Sergei