Re: [tied] Re: IE prefix "*s"

From: P&G
Message: 28466
Date: 2003-12-14

> The meaning of "good" from "be" .... is barely sensical,

Yet isn't this actually attested in Sanskrit where Sati (literally "she who
is") means a good woman?
The meaning "real, existent" survives: tatha: sati = this being so
but the meaning "good" is very common for all genders, and it gives one of
the words for "sage" or "good man".

So perhaps a similar shift in meaning in PIE is not so improbable?

Peter