From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 43735
Date: 2006-03-09
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "pielewe" <wrvermeer@...>That isn't at all what he said.
> wrote:
>> 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. If that association is already
>> present in Bulgarian (the first place to look if you are
>> discussing the Slavic elements of Rumanian and the Church
>> Slavonic part of the Russian lexicon), the drift to the
>> type of meaning attested in Rumanian may become
>> understandable after all.
> You are right here. So you agree at least that the initial
> place for this word are the Balkans...