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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Sergejus Tarasovas"
<S.Tarasovas@...> wrote:
> Because I'm not in a position to evaluate it -- Dacian philology is
out of
> my competence. The semantic development 'request' -> 'cause' is
something to
> which I can't find a parallel off hand, though.
>
> Sergei
I didn't propose directly 'request' -> 'cause'
My derivation of the meaning based on *prk'-no:
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PIE *prk'-no 'request, question, raised item' -> Balkan 'request,
question, raised item + problem, trouble, motive' -> Balkan Latin ->
OCS -> later generalization to 'cause, reason'
Your derivation of the meaning based on *kWei-no + preffix *pri
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PIE *kWei- 'to arrange, to build' -> Late Common Slavic preffix
*pri 'at' + 'to arrange, to make' -> Slavic 'to cause, reason' ->
OCS -> Romanian 'problem, trouble, inquiry'
Two observations on my side:
a) Usually the original PIE meanings are very concrete ones and the
generalizations appeared later => this rule is respected in my
proposal but not respected in yours
b) Finally, I cannot see how we can arrived to Romanian
pricinã '(bad) cause, dispute, trouble, inquiry' from a PIE 'to
arrange' whatever loan path we could imagine...using or not the
preffix 'at'.
Marius