[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.
>

I was wondering if the *h1su- "good" root had anything to do with the
*se-, *swe- "one's own' etc root (you might want to rummage through

http://www.angelfire.com/rant/tgpedersen/sw.html

); prefixing a /h1/ before the latter wouldn't seem to hamper it?

Torsten