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

--- alexandru_mg3 <alexandru_mg3@...> wrote:

> >
>
> a) GK, first I didn't offense you in any way (the
> usage of 'mad'
> word there is a very bad point for 'your image' on
> this forum not for
> me. But please at least to follow the guidelines of
> this forum.

*****GK: Too bad you can't take a joke. And I should
have thought that my use of "prychynnyj" had some
interest as a related word: can't think of a worse
"bad accident"...*****

> a) pric^ina is 'a recent' Slavic formation (if it is
> a Slavic one)

****GK: And why shouldn't it be?*****

>
> b) being a recent formation it remains to say
> something about the
> probable place and time where this word apperaed or
> was formed: based
> on some good postings here (see Willem) the
> probability 'to appear'
> FIRST in OCS times and next to be diffused in the
> pan-Slavic World
> via the Slavonic Church is the most probable path to
> follow

*****GK: That's just Willem's notion. You may like it.
I don't, particularly. I prefer the view that it
appeared much earlier, as a Common Slavic word, and
was "inherited" by daughter languages. At some point
it was also borrowed into Romanian. (Since there are
more Slavic borrowings in Romanian than Romanian
borrowings in Slavic I think this is the preferable
view (:=)))*****

>
>
> I think that everybody here (despite different
> posting 'tones'):
> Sergei, Willem, Petusek, I etc...'somehow' have
> already agreed until
> now on the points a) and b).

*****GK: That's not true as to (b).*****


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