Re: IE prefix "*s"

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

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Abdullah Konushevci"
> <a_konushevci@...> wrote:
>
> > Outcome of PIE /*s/ > Alb. /s/ we have attested in *snuso:s >
> > nuse 'bride', in *super > sipër 'over' (cf. hip 'to climb up, to

go

> > up' from *up-er-) some of basic words of the Albanian inherited
> > dictionary.
>
> I'm not sure where <sipër> comes from, but since it fails to match
> *super- on two counts I suspect that the similarity between the two

is

> accidental.

Which two counts?

Torsten