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

From: george knysh
Message: 43729
Date: 2006-03-08

--- alex <alxmoeller@...> wrote:

>
>
> george knysh schrieb:
>
> > 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 (:=)))
>
>
> eh... it seems this time not... OCS borrowed a lot
> from the
> "neighbours" and via OCS there are many words which
> entered all
> Slavic languages.

****GK: I see no reason to hold that "pric^ina" took
this route. It was already there.****



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