--- In nostratic@..., "Glen Gordon" <glengordon01@...> wrote:

>
> 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
>

Yup. The question is: are there cases od IE s mobile, that can not be
interpreted as a causative prefix.

Torsten