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- noun linguistics A
phenomenon where aProto-Indo-European root begins with an *s- which is sometimes but not always present in thedaughter languages .
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Examples
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The *s-mobile has no proven function in PIE and therefore can't be called a genuine grammatical prefix.
Prefixes in Minoan 2010
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With devoicing of the initial dental due to the s-mobile, but a still existant *bʰ.
PIE "look-alike stems" - Evidence of something or a red herring? 2009
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With devoicing of the initial dental due to the s-mobile, but a still existant *bʰ.
PIE "look-alike stems" - Evidence of something or a red herring? 2009
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The confusion would be made more likely if this "optional" s-mobile as a fossilized foreign morpheme, as I continue to maintain, had never ever become a productive phoneme in Pre-IE or PIE as some PIEists still believe.
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The confusion would be made more likely if this "optional" s-mobile as a fossilized foreign morpheme, as I continue to maintain, had never ever become a productive phoneme in Pre-IE or PIE as some PIEists still believe.
Archive 2009-04-01 2009
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