From: alexandru_mg3
Message: 43742
Date: 2006-03-09
>Brian please ask Willem tomorrow...
> 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
>