Re: [Courrier indésirable] Re: [tied] Re: PS Emphatics

Perhaps it's because I teach Spanish but I see
s-mobile as an intensifying prefix that functions like
the Spanish reflexive use as an intensifier comer "to
eat, essen", comerse "to gobble up, fressen", ir "to
go", irse" to get going, depart"
I've wondered if it's related to the reflexive marker
in Spanish and su- "self, selves" as well as, somehow
to Old Persian hu- "good", perhaps to Greek eu- (if
it's related to OP hu-)


--- "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:

>
> The probable significance of s-mobile has been
> explained in a previous post.
>
> *s- is a compounding element meaning 'well', and
> conveying a perfective
> aspect.
> ========
> I'm afraid I don't trust that.
>
> Arnaud
> =============
>
> There is one other compounding element of which I am
> aware: *ye-, which I
> believe formed indefinite plurals for nouns in the
> earliest PIE.
> Patrick
> ==============
> Which data do you have to support this idea ?
>
> Arnaud
> ===================
>
>
>

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