From: alexandru_mg3
Message: 43737
Date: 2006-03-09
>Please read again.
> At 6:42:08 AM on Wednesday, March 8, 2006, alexandru_mg3
> wrote:
>
> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "pielewe" <wrvermeer@>
> > 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...
>
> That isn't at all what he said.
>
> [...]
>
> Brian
>