From: tgpedersen
Message: 18415
Date: 2003-02-04
> On Mon, 03 Feb 2003 09:13:09 -0000, "tgpedersenthere
> <tgpedersen@...>" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
>
> >That m-prefix ("my heart"?) would be a one-off thing, true. But
> >is a n-infix. And of course I might argue that there once was anasal
> >prefix, and that it disappeared, leaving no traces but t > dH etc.1st
>
> The Kartvelian m- prefix (as in m-k.erd-) is not connected to the
> person prefix (which is w-, anyway).mas.dar
>
> Its uses in Kartvelian (m- participal prefix, m-..-e: verbal noun,
> agent noun circumfix [Klimov gives the following examples from Svan:
> m&-dz^Gir "wet", m&-k.ar "open", m&-txeli "seeker", m&-k.et "friend,
> lover"; m&-c^.m-e "mower", m&-gc^-e "one who holds", m&-tr-e
> "drinker"] are in function [and form] very close to the Arabic
> and generally to the Semitic participles, verbal nouns, agent nouns,I take your emendations to heart and continue to believe in my thus
> instrument nouns etc. with prefix mi-/ma-/mu-. (Interestingly, as I
> was checking the spelling of the word mas.dar "verbal noun", I found
> that it is itself the mas.dar of a root s.-d-r meaning "chest,
> breast", just like Kartvelian m-k.erd-).
>
>
> =======================
> Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
> mcv@...