From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 28399
Date: 2003-12-12
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From: "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 11:28 AM
Subject: [tied] Re: IE prefix "*s"
> 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
Unlikely. The *-u- in *h1(e)su- is an PIE adjectival stem formant, not part
of the root, so the morphological division is really *h1es-u-. I wouldn't
rule out a connection with *h1es- 'to be', given that the other adjective
meaning 'good' is *wesu-, as if from *wes-. If this is a coincidence, it's a
very odd one, though the semantic side of the connection isn't clear to me
(apart from the fact that most people find it better to be than not to be).
Piotr