Re: s-mobile, water, locative

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

>
> If, as I proposed, the water-word *H-p- became postpositions,
> preverbs, later prepositions eg. Latin <sub>, <super>, there's the

s-

> to be explained. Southern proposes to connects it with
> the 'adverbial' -s of <abs->, *subs- > <sus-> and with loc. pl.
> <-su>. But if this water-noun was used as a postposition in the
> Basque style, it would have to be in the locative, eg thus
> '<governed noun>-gen.suffix <water word>-loc.suffix'.

Suppose it developed this way:

<governed noun>-gen.suffix <water-word>-loc.suffix
becomes
<governed noun>-loc.suffix <water-word>-loc.suffix

in which the locative suffix was <-su>;
a sample -OV phrase with the 'water word' <up>:

<noun>-su up-su <verb>
becomes
<noun> su(p)s-<verb>

And this might be the way the Latin pre-verb <sus-> was born.


Torsten