Re: IE prefix "*s"

>
> >> 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?
>
> 1) PIE *s : Alb. s is the first mismatch, because normally initial

*s

> corresponds to Alb. gj- (in a stressed syllable) or Alb. sh- (in an
> unstressed syllable)

Before vowel, I presume?

> 2) PIE *u : Alb. i is the other mismatch, because PIE u is normally
> preserved in Albanian.
>

Which reminds me that Southern theorises that s-mobile was revived in
Germanic as an active process. Any chance of that here?

Torsten