soft heart

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:

> On Mon, 03 Feb 2003 09:13:09 -0000, "tgpedersen
> <tgpedersen@...>" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
>
>
> The Kartvelian m- prefix (as in m-k.erd-) is not connected to the

1st

> person prefix (which is w-, anyway).
>
> 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

mas.dar

> and generally to the Semitic participles, verbal nouns, agent nouns,
> 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@...

And suppose we proposed metathesis ...

I looked for a 'm-präformativ" in Hermann Møller, which he hadn't,
but he did have

PreIE *Â-m- [Â some laryngeal] "Mitte" >
IE *em-, m, m.- (+ t- Greek 'meta' etc)
Egyptian în (?) "in, inter", pyram. îmwty "in Mitten, zwischen"
Arab matnuN "the middle ..."

which would fit semantically.

Torsten