1. follow up request, question (A question that comes after an intial "briefing". Pretty common word in the office world when people want to say stuff like "Get back to me if you have (further) questions.")
Word Family
Root: *prek-
The core idea of this root was:
asking, pleading
The German fragen is on the more neutral side, as are the Slavic children of this root which are also about asking. The English to pray shifted toward a very “intense” and specific pleading.
German forschen (to do research) is more proactive, but at the core of it is also a question.
The Latin branch shifted a bit toward the idea of depending on the will of someone else. In English, this then shifted toward uncertain, risky, dangerous That’s where precarious and deprecate are from.
