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

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Sergejus Tarasovas"
> <S.Tarasovas@...> wrote:
> > Alternatively, it could indeed be a late (i.e. invented at the time
> the
> > meaning 'make' was fully established) learned formation, as Willem
> suggests.
>
> a)
> So at least 'you start to accept' that *pric^ina is not at all a PIE
> formation but based on your new point of view 'a recent internal pan-
> Slavic formation';

Please quote from my posting where I state *pric^ina is a PIE formation.

> b) But if it is 'a recent internal pan-Slavic formation' (that you
> start to accept) for sure this word 'should appear first' in 'Only
> One of the Slavic Dialects/Languages at that time' and as Willem
> point out very well in relation with the Russian word => the right
> origin of it should be the OCS => and from there a 'church diffusion
> of this word in the pan-Slavic word'

I don't quite understand you. Imagine the word in question was coined in
Proto-Slavic say, ca. 0 AD (or 500 BC for that matter, since the pattern is
productive also in Baltic). What's your problem?

> > AFAIK, 'inquiry' is a possible Romanian meaning of the word, but
> not a
> > Slavic one.
>
> I doubt. See Willem, George messages on this aspect.

I've checked their messages painstakingly. Where do they write *pric^ina
means 'inquiry' in Slavic? By the way, Willem meant the Russian *verb*
pric^init', not the noun pric^ina. The noun is absolutely neutral in
Russian, with no negative connotations.

Sergei