Re: PIE prek'- ; prok' ; prk'- 'to ask'

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "pielewe" <wrvermeer@...> wrote:

> Although several modern Slavic languages have the word "pric^ina", it
> does not occur in Old Church Slavonic (unless it has cropped up in
> one of the newly - or rather not so newly - discovered texts), which
> has a single instance of "pric^initi" with the value of 'add, hitch
> onto something' (according to the one-volume Staroslavjanskij slovar'
> of 1994).

O rather 'reckon among', as one can deduce from the context (<i bratrIi
pric^inite me,>)? I wonder, though, what the fundamental Slovník jazyka
staroslove^nského says about these words. Have they reached "P" already?

Sreznevskij gives 'beginning, initiative' for <pric^ina> (the 2nd half
of the 15th c.), but the context would tolerate 'cause' as well (<ot
Ivas^ka pric^ina byla>), 'attach (to a building); make' for
<pric^initi> (the end of the 14th c.) and 'dress' for <pric^initise,>
(PVL under ca. 990).

>It looks suspiciously like a learned formation.

Quite possible.

Sergei