From: Miguel Carrasquer
Message: 38061
Date: 2005-05-24
>Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:Yes. If so, there is no connection with the preposition
>> tgpedersen wrote:
>
>>>BTW I wonder if the pre/postpositon *bhi "at" is related somehow.
>>>Miguel tried to link it as a preverb to Polish 'po-'. The
>>>alternation -u/-i smacks of a locative too?
>>
>>
>> It is usually derived from PIE *h2po-, which would make
>> it a relative of English <of>, <off>, <eft> and <after> ...
>
>Sorry, I forgot to mention one thing. Miguel suggested that some
>instances of the Germanic prefix *bi- could reflect the Verner variant
>of a preposition originally beginning with *p (or *Hp-), just as *ga- is
>thought to be cognate to Lat. com-.