From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 28393
Date: 2003-12-12
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From: "alexandru_mg3" <alexandru_mg3@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 9:46 AM
Subject: [tied] Re: IE prefix "*s"
> Interestingly, some Sumerian verb formations contain the prefixed
> element shu-2, "totality", which is probably an analogous device to
> the prefixing of IE su/u:-, "well, good", whether or not cognate:
>
> *ed-, "eat" and swa:d-, "sweet (="good-eating")"
There are many good examples of compounds with *h1su-, but this one happens
to be spurious. The 'eat' root is *h1ed-, while the 'sweet' word is
*swah2du-, certainly not from *h1su-h1ed-. The similarity (which fades away
if you use the correct IE reconstructions) is only accidental.
Piotr