Re: *s-mobile

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From: Patrick Ryan

No one knows certainly what the origin of PIE *s-mobile is.

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Yes
It's hard to understand something
especially when you're trying everything
to make it fuzzy and unmanageable.
Arnaud
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I have made one proposal, which I believe is somewhat credible, but I have
no way at present to enhance the odds.

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Hm Hm
Business as usual
with you
Arnaud
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As you know, it is that *s-mobile
derives from *su (*sWA), 'well, good', and hence is an emphatic, perfective,
or admirative. Of course, if we found an ancient PIE-derived language that
say, in cuneiform, _consistently_ indicated *s-mobile's by initial SU/SU,
then that would strength my case considerably.

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Isn't *su in fact *H1esu ?
like in Greek #eu-
It has nothing to do with #s- mobile

Arnaud
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Your prefix reminds me of the Egyptian causative in *s-, which I reconstruct
as *so, related to PIE *so: <snf.j>, 'I succor' <- 'I (-j) [cause] him (s-)
to exhale/breathe (nf)'.

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As usual,
you mis-read people,
I did not write it was a prefix.

Arnaud
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As for your suggestion on *swé(-)sor-, it is not an agentive.

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Never wrote this
Arnaud
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It is a rare nominal compound meaning simply 'clan-woman', used similarly to
Ebonic
'sister'. Its original meaning has been re-introduced. The meaning of
'sister' might give you a hint as to the meaning of 'brother'.

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Rare, Ebonic, re-introduced

What are you talking about ?

Arnaud
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Also, remember *swe-lo-.

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What's this ?

Arnaud
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