[tied] Re: IE prefix "*s"

From: richardwordingham
Message: 28437
Date: 2003-12-13

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex" <alxmoeller@...> wrote:
> Since it seems the role of PIe "*s" is not clarified, it would
maybe of
> help to know what in Balcanic Languages,Slavic, Germanic and
Italic this
> "s" prefix does.
>
> So far I am informed, in Slavic, the prefix "s" has an intensifying
> function.

You were specifically warned that Proto-Slavic sU- is distinct from
IE s mobile, which is what we are discussing here.

Richard.