Proto-Semitic

"All the facts instead lead me to believe that *s- was a fossilized prefix in an entirely different language, namely Proto-Semitic, where it was productively used as a causative."

Suspicious IE roots, possibly deserving our scorn or maybe not 2010

All the facts instead lead me to believe that *s- was a fossilized prefix in an entirely different language, namely Proto-Semitic, where it was productively used as a causative.

Suspicious IE roots, possibly deserving our scorn or maybe not 2010

Judging only by the spelling of the Hebrew name לכיש, I'd expect instead a Proto-Semitic triliteral *l-k-š/θ.

An online Etruscan Dictionary has arrived 2010

As most of the semitic languages in that region must have pronounce the word much like the Proto-Semitic *θawr

Suspicious IE roots, possibly deserving our scorn or maybe not 2010

I wager it's merely a petrifact from Neolithic loans derived from Proto-Semitic where *s- served as a causative marker.

Prefixes in Minoan 2010

Since we're talking about Minoan of the 2nd millenium BCE, the proposed phonologies of Proto-Semitic c.5000 BCE or even earlier Proto-Afro-Asiatic are entirely anachronistic to this topic and thus irrelevant.

A new value for Minoan 'd' 2009

It also tingles me to no end that it just so happens that my predicted monosyllabic root *es- in Mid IE could be further corroborated by the Proto-Semitic existential copula *yiθ 'there is'1, also coincidentally monosyllabic and thus quite plausibly borrowed into Mid Indo-European during the Neolithic.

Archive 2009-08-01 2009

That is the question (9 Feb 2008) and Paleoglot: Proto-Semitic as a second language (14 Mar 2008)

Archive 2009-08-01 2009

When I mentioned "the Semitic pharyngeal series" in an above comment, I was referring not to Proto-Semitic phonology but to the collective phonologies of Semitic languages particularly West Semitic languages of the Minoan period.

A new value for Minoan 'd' 2009

The first interesting thing about this fresh perspective is that 6000 BCE is just about the time before Proto-Semitic began to affect Mid IE MIE according to my currently defined chronology.

Archive 2009-11-01 2009