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

From: Petr Hrubis
Message: 43676
Date: 2006-03-07

--- alexandru_mg3 <alexandru_mg3@...> wrote:
> To come back: my question was: if the preffix *pri
> 'can receive' in
> Slavic some secondary meanings (like 'to disturb'
> etc)...to can explain
> this construction, because if it means only 'at'
> this will not help us
> a lot.

*pri- can mean "addition".

See also Czech c^init se try hard, do best, endeavour,
exert and pr^icinit se "participate in doing
something, have merit in" = "add oneself's effort to
achieve something"

Petusek




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