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

At 8:15:12 PM on Wednesday, March 8, 2006, alexandru_mg3 wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...>
> wrote:

>> 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.

> Please read again.

I understood it perfectly well the first time. YOU read it
again, and this time try to understand what you're reading.
There is absolutely nothing in Willem's statement that
implies that the word entered the Slavic lexicon in the
Balkans. On the contrary, he's observing that when a
Slavic word appears in Romanian, Bulgarian is the first
place to look for the proximate source.

Brian