Prefices

Thu Mar 16 15:44:03 UTC 2000

Hi,

I seek for etymological roots of prefixes "pa-" and "su-".

For example:

Syn - pasynok
Doch' (dscher') - padcherica
Stih - pastish
Zvuk - pazvuk
Truba - patrubok
etc.

It has an apparent meaning of "almost" or "taking place of."
The only thing that comes to my mind is French "pas," but French influence
appears to be much much younger.

Examples for "su-"

Mrak - sumerki
Glina - suglinok
Tolkat' - sutoloka
(?) Metat'sya, metushit'sya - sumatoha
Krov' - sukrovica

The prefixes are present in Ukrainian as well (I can think of "su-", at
least). I'd be delighted to know about their variants in other Slavic
languages. And, as said before, their etymology.

                                        Thanks in advance,
                                                        Alexey

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                                                                A.F.

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