Re: [tied] *bhe-, -y, -w

Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:

> tgpedersen wrote:

>>BTW I wonder if the pre/postpositon *bhi "at" is related somehow.
>>Miguel tried to link it as a preverb to Polish 'po-'. The
>>alternation -u/-i smacks of a locative too?
>
>
> It is usually derived from PIE *h2po-, which would make
> it a relative of English <of>, <off>, <eft> and <after> ...

Sorry, I forgot to mention one thing. Miguel suggested that some
instances of the Germanic prefix *bi- could reflect the Verner variant
of a preposition originally beginning with *p (or *Hp-), just as *ga- is
thought to be cognate to Lat. com-.

Piotr