From: etherman23
Message: 39866
Date: 2005-09-02
>Ehret reconstructs PAA *bu, place. Cf. Egypt. bw (place), Cushitic bu
> > If we look at the PIE pre-/post- -verb/-positions themselves, they
> > seemed to have suffixes -o, -i, -er. That's not part of the PIE
> case
> > system, but might be part of a pre-PIE or non-IE case system. Even
> > Basque loans postpositions.
> >
>
> Cf. the Semitic prepositions
> Proto-Semitic *bi "in"
> Akkadian bas^u, Ethiopian bo: "in him" > "there is"
> Hebrew, Syrian b&, ba,
> Arab. bi
> Ethiopian ba
>
>
> Interesting that Semitic offers a semantic 'bridge' between the
> postposition *bhi and the 'locative verb' *bh-w-/*bh-y-, which IE
> doesn't. Also, if Semitic had been the donor of post(etc)positions
> to IE, we should expect them be nouns in either acc (ending in -u)
> or gen. (ending in -i). Which is pretty close to what we see.