Re: [tied] Re: IE prefix "*s"

richardwordingham wrote:

> --- 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.
>

I was warend, thus I meant what "s" in Slavic does. It plays no role if
the "s" in Slavic here is from ProtoSlavic "-sU" or from PIE "s" I
guess. Thus, before going deeper in history, one has to see what today
in the living languages this "s" does, regardless its origin.

Alex