Harald:

>I think the proto-Semitic causative *s is fairly well-established.
>It even occurs in Akkadian.

Or let's talk about the apparently functionless *s- of IE...
which is why I think that we underestimate the number of neolithic
loans of a Semitoid origin that are present in IE. The prefix is
meaningless because it is the petrified remains of Semitic or
Semitic-related morphology, just like the word *septm.


- gLeN




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