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

Abdullah Konushevci wrote:

> As far as I know, Alb. prefix (preverb) s(ë)- with variants so-/su-
> or voiced ones z(ë)- before voiced stops, has many functions.
> With intesifying meaning we find it in: <provoj> 'to proove',
> <sprovoj> 'to experience, to go through', <kuq> 'to dye (in red), to
> rouge', but <skuq> 'to roast', etc. As preverb, making factitive-
> causatives: zbeh 'to (make) pale', ia behu 'to come swiftly like
> light, to pop in, to come unexeptedly', <pastroj> 'to clean',
> <spastroj> 'to purge, to purify'.
> Its variations so- is present in <sohia> 'shade' (cf. <hie> 'shadow',
> and <suvalë> 'breaker, billow surge' (cf. <valë> 'wave' (Çabej-
> Xhuvani "Parashtesat e gjuhës shqipe").
> I guess that its origin can't be devided from PIE *ksun-, basic form
> *su(n)- (cf. Greek syn-, Slavic so-, s-.
> I believe that here belongs too another Alb. prefix sh- with its
> variang zh- before voiced stops: ndrit 'to shine', <shndrit> 'to be
> radiant', shkabë 'eagle', zhgabonjë 'id.' etc.
>
> Konushevci

Thank you Abdullah. It remains that Miguel enlight us which is the
function of the prefix "s" in Romance (from Latin ex-, of course) since
he has his own opinion about function of Latin "ex-" and the evolution
of this prefix in Romance.

Alex