Re: rex, ra_s.t.ra, nation

--- In cybalist@..., "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

> Interesting. Møller mentions a Semitic causative prefix s-

(wherever

> he got that from) which he equates with IE s mobile, to which he
> therefore tentativly also assgns a causative meaning (e.g. melt,
> smelt, and, perhaps reach, stretch).
> The various Austronesian languages, as far as I have understood it,
> instead of using case suffixes to indicate the role of each NP in

the

> sentence, uses affixes to the verb to put it in a mode that

indicates

> that the sole, uninflected NP in sentence has that particular role.
> Thus the verbal affix for instrument is the prefix Si-, which would
> then be related to the Semitic causative s-. (For object it is the
> suffix -n, cf IE past participles).
>
> http://www.angelfire.com/rant/tgpedersen/austric.html

This is straying way off-topic. I've posted my reply at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nostratic/message/753

Richard.