[tied] Re: IE prefix "*s"

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:

> 13-12-03 02:27, Glen Gordon wrote:
>
> > There are the following to munch
> > on showing the foreign causitive suffix having been fossilized:
> >
> > IE Semitic
> > --------------------------------------------------------------

<Snip>

> > *mer- "think" *?mr "see, know"
> > *smer- "think" *s-?mr "make see"
>
> PIE *mer has the specific meaning of 'remember, recall'
> (hence Lat. memor 'mindful, reminiscent', so that the semantic

match

> with the Semitic words is looser than your glosses make it seem to

be.

Any connection with Hebrew _?a:mar_ 'say, tell'?

Richard.