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

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

> On the other hand it is striking that Russian "pric^init'" 'cause'
> (which stylistically feels like a Slavonicism and has the
> corresponding stress pattern) is firmly associated with
> negative phenomena such as pain, harm, sorrow, and loss.

Do you mean the fixed desinential stress of the Russian word, incompatible
with the mobile (c) paradigm one would expect for *pric^initi?

Sergei