Re: Burushaski

On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:48:04 -0000, "stlatos"
<stlatos@...> wrote:

>--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:
>>
>> On 2008-02-19 22:29, Miguel Carrasquer Vidal wrote:
>>
>> > Isn't it obvious that <-skir> "father-in-law" and <-skus>
>> > "mother-in-law" (the - implies that a possessor prefix is
>> > required) are straightforwardly derived within Burushaski
>> > itself from <hir> "man" and <gus> "woman" (the same would
>> > seem to apply to <gus> => <yugus> "daughter")?
>>
>> It is indeed, and Dick Grune even says so in his description of
>> Burushaski.
>
> What would s- mean, is it supposed to be causative?

It's obviously related to Dutch schoon- in <schoonvader>
"father in law", <schoonmoeder> "mother-in-law". *sxon, with
x > 0 before /o/, and on > õ > 0.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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