Torsten:
>Southern quotes someone as proposing a PIE w-preformative alternating
>with /h1/ in *h1es- "be" / *wes- "stay the night".
And this is exactly what is _known_ to occur in Semitic. *w-Tb "to sit",
for example.
To answer Miguel, I don't agree that *sed- has anything to do with *es-.
We would expect **?sed- but we don't find it. The Anatolian use of
a similar verb for "sit" might conceivably be a perfect vrddhied form
*e:s- for the use in the mediopassive. It would convey a resultative
sense of "to be" such as "to come to be", "to come to remain here".
Thus "I come to remain here for myself > I seat myself" *e:sxor.
= gLeN
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