Re: [tied] slavic "za"

From: tgpedersen
Message: 20393
Date: 2003-03-27

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:
> As a preposition, <za> may mean 'after, behind (with a locative);
for, instead of (with an accusative)', and probably other language-
specific things as well. As a verb prefix, it usually conveys the
sense of finishing an action, completing or fulfilling something, or
reaching an aim, but sometimes also starting an activity.
>
> Slavic *za is related to East Baltic *(a-)z^o:, probably from
*g^Ho: .
>
Which means (and possible cognates)?

Torsten