Compilation and translations from French, Italian and Latin
Note: s and S represent distinct phonemes
-s , -si, sa; -eis, -S, -Si, -Sa "genitive suffix, adjectival suffix" [mcv, mp68: 351, pa]
Sa, sa, sa-S, Sa-s "six" [am91, az96, cb, mcv]
sac-, Sac-, sac-a, sac-ri "carrying out a sacred act, to consecrate" [g/lb83, mp68, dep, pa]
Saca "point" [az96]
Saena, sena "Siena (town)"
sal- "make, carry out" [g/lb83]
sal "Sol?" [mcv 8 Nov 96]
Sal "king, pontifex" [az96]
*sala "side of earth, channel" [rah 53-54]
Sale, Salie, Salvi "star, spendor" [az96]
Salk "base" [az96]
san-, San-, sian-, sian-S, sanS-aS, san-Sl, sian-Sl, san-ulis, san-e
"dead, deceased, ancestor" [pa, dep]
san "union?" [az96]
saniu "servo" [az96]
sanSl "votive offering" [g/lb85: 170]
santerna Latin from Etruscan [mp68: 369]
Santi "certainty, stability" [az96]
sanxuna, sanxuneta (demonstrative) personal name [mc91: 73]
sapu name "stump, trunk" [az96]
Sar "ten" [g/lb83, mc91, pa, dep]
Sar "assure, reinforce" [az96]
Sarle "sterilze, neutralize" [az96]
Sarvena "cadaver, remains" [az96]
sat-, Sat, Sath, Sut, Suth (ablaut) "to sit, set, put, establish, to be found, make" [g/lb83, mp68, pa, dep, gzb]
Satr "affliction" [az96]
satelles "bodyguard" Latin of Etruscan origin [lrp 48, nv 73]
Satena "aedile" [az96]
saties family name [g/lb83 22]
satir "speak, talk"
satiria [az96]
Satre, satres "Saturn" [mp68: 159]; "
Save "sustain, signum, punctum?" [az96]
sc-, scu- Scu-, esx-, escu-, sce, Scu-n, Scu-na, Scu-ne, scu-na, scu-nu, scu-n-si, scu-v-se, scv-etu, esx-ath, esx-ath-ce, escu-na
"to give, put, make an offering"
scanin "to rise, climb" [az96]
scara "in inwards" [az96]
scarpe male name [mc91: 100]
sceva, skaiva "left-handed, treacherous" [az96]
scire, sciria "step?" [az96]
scuna, scunu "observer, inspector" [az96]
Scune, Scuni "yield, yielding, cession" [g/lb83 83, mp68: 405]
scuxie "oblique, sinister, unlucky" [az96]
Sea- "access, passage" [az96]
Sec, sex, Sex "daughter," [am91, az96, EB XXII:801, jf 139, jpm, g/lb83, mc91, mp68: 400, pa, dep, gm97]
Secan "to sign, mark" [az96]
sece "to follow?" [az96]
seci "to cut, smash" [az96]
segusius Latin [bm 24-25]
seiate, seate, seiante, seante, sente, sentinate family name [mc91: 123]
seka "to fall, founder" [az96]
sel-"to do, to make" [dep]
Sela "order, disposition" [az96]
selcia "vortex" [az96]
selva, selvan, selvans, selvanz "Silvanus" [g/lb83. mc91: 53/74, mp68: 251, EM]
Sem "to arrest" [az96]
Semla "(goddess) Simula, Stimula, Semelé" [az96]
Semna "trace, track (way, passage) [az96]
semni female name [g/lb83 84]
*semph, semph-S "seven" [am91, g/lb83, jf 141, mp68, pa, dep]
Semu "signer" [az96]
Semuthin "to cleft" [az96]
sene "servant, slave" [az96]
sentie "Sentinus (god)?" [az96]
Sepana, Sepiasa, Sepie, Seple, Septe, Septle, Sepune, Sep(u)lna, Sepre, Sepu "stump, trunk, support, pole" > "fool"[az96]
Sepu family name [g/lb85: 166]
Ser "to fix, grasp" [az96]
Serice "stiff, stop" [az96]
Serphua "stump, foundation" [az96]
Sert-, Sertur "star, bright" [az96]
serui, serue > servus "servant," [lrp 57]
ses "seat" [az96]
ses "to present, put" [az96]
sese "to be absent, lack" [az96]
Setha- "position" [az96]
Sethlans "Hephaestus, Vulcan" [cb, g/lb83, mc91: 53, EM]
Setirune "support, reinforcement" [az96]
Setu "(which) afflicts?" [az96]
Seu "track, tracker, trace, tracer" [az96]
shkrak "spittle," Romansh [jr 69]
Si "trace, track, point, sign" [az96]
sianasa "(which) guards, sees" [az96]
silgatana family name [g/lb 85: 46]
Silu "stilus" [az96]
sime satyr
Sime "Stimulus?" [az96]
Simxla "trace, track, stimulation" [az96]
sin "to permit" [az96]
sina "depose, grant" [az96]
sinu "colonist" [az96]
Sipir "stipulate" [az96]
Siprisni "one who tramples, rivets" [az96]
siricima unknown [mp68: 391]
Sirona, Dirona "Diana, Shining" [az96]
sisphe "Sisyphus" [g/lb85: 161]
sith "deposed, conceded (preterite)" [az96]
Sith, Sithum "torpor, deposition, rotting" [az96]
Sitmica "fixer, affixer" [az96]
Sixaciiule "signs, (things) investigated" [az96]
slaithe "(which) beats, hits" [az96]
slapina "fallen, disgraced" [az96]
slela "cistern, basin" [az96]
sleparis "one who slips, slides, stumbles" [az96]
sli "to taste, pour a libation" [az96]
slicaxe "dead" [az96]
The compilers thank Adolfo Zavaroni for his generous assistance and objectivity.
This compilation is copyrighted.
by Rick Mc Callister and Silvia Mc Callister-Castillo ©1999
s represents unvoiced dorsal /s/
S may represent unvoiced affricate /sh/ or apical /S/
spelling conventions varied and are not always consistent
therefore use of s and S may represent variant spellings of the same word
or may distinguish unrelated words
see also sm/SM-sv/SV,
Z
-s nominative for males and deities [mp68: 395]
oblique genitive and dative suffixes for nouns ending in vowels except feminine -i [mp68: 99]
and majority of nouns ending in consonants [mp68: 99]
< *-si [mcv 9-2-99]
-si personal dative ("pertinentive") [mcv 23 Jan 98]
formed by genitive + locative [mcv 23 Jan 98]
< *si-i [mcv 23 Jan 98]
-sis/-is [mcv 23 Jan 98]
< *-si-si "double genitive" (ablative?) [mcv 23 Jan 98]
see Lemnian -z, -zi, -eiz [mp68: 99]
see Lydian -l [er 21 Jun 99]
see Luwian -assi [mcv 9-2-99]
Indo-European *-os [mcv 9-2-99]
"four" [g/lb83, vs/amr 189]
"four or six" [mc91, mp68, pa, dep]
sazil derivative of sa- [mp68]
sam "and four" [mc91]
Sealx, sealxls, sialxls "sixty" [ayma@tip.nl]
"forty" [g/lb83]
"forty or sixty" [mc91, pa]
see Lemnian sialxveis, sialxvis "sixty" [ayma@tip.nl, mp68: 99]
see Indo-European *sek's/wek's/uk's "six" [ag 1978]
see Indo-European *Seks, *Sweks < Semitic [mcv 19 May 98]
see Kartvelian *eks^w- "six" [ag 1978]
sacni "priest" [g/lb83 77]
"consecration" [mp68: 263]
Sacni "to cover" [az96]
sacni, sacniu, Sacni-cn, Sacni-tn, Sacni-cla, Sacni-tle, Sacni-cl-eri, Sacni-cS-treS "sacred place, sanctuary, consecrated" [mp68, pa, dep, gzb]
Sacnic "cover" [az96]
Sacnic cilth "sanctuary" [mp68: 263]
Sacnic cith "tegimen apex, pointed hood for fulguriator and haruspex" [az96]
sacnicleri "for the temple" [gm97]
sacnisa, SacniSa, Sacnisa "consecrate, dedicate" [am91, g/lb83, 85: 161, mc91: 135, mp68: 263]
"covered" > "buried" [az96]
sacnitalte, sacnisa, sacniSa "to consecrate" [mp68]
Sacnitle "covers (plural)" [az96]
sacniu, sacniv "(has) covered" [az96]
suc-, Suc-, Suc-i, Suc-ivn, Suc-ri "ritual act" [mp68]
see Latin sacer "sacred, holy" [az96, g/lb83, 85: 161, mc91: 135, mp68: 263, gzb, dep, pa]
see Greek hagios "holy" [dep]
see Oscan sakoro "sacred" [dep]
see Hittite saklai "custom" [dep]
see Indo-European *sak- "to consecrate" [pa]
< *steg-n- [az96]
Sacri "to fix, fasten" [az96]
Sacrni "sharp, pointed" [az96]
Sacrtuna "incisor, chisel" [az96]
Sacu, Saxu "acute, wise" [az96]
see Latin sac- [az96]
see Latin sagax "shrewd, acute", sagio, staca [az96]
< *stakh- "point, sharpness" [az96]
see Latin Saena [g/lb83, djh 14]
Sal mama "pontifex maximus" [az96]
of Tyrrhenian origin?
saliethi "light, illumination" [az96]
Saltuc "shining" [az96]
Salthn "to shine, illuminate" [az96]
sameru "brilliant (clear, solar?)" [az96]
Salxei "firm, well founded" [az96]
< *stalk(h)- "base, structure" [az96: 17]
santi, Santi, Santi-S-tS "funerary priest" [mp68]
sacerdotal title [pa, dep]
funerary title? [pa]
saniSa, saniSva "dead?" [mc91]
sanisva "blessed?" plural [am91]
< ? san- [dep]
see Breton hen "old" [dep]
see Latin senex "old man" [dep]
see Sanskrit sanas "old" [dep]
see Avestan hano "old" [dep]
see Amenian hyn "old" [dep]
see Lithuanian senas "old" [dep]
see Greek henos "old" [dep]
saniSa, saniSva "dead?" [mc91]
"joined" [az96]
sanS "linker, joiner, binder" [az96]
< *san/*sen "to join" [az96]
Santic "(which) sustains, gives a base" [az96]
< *stan-t- "foundation, base" [az96: 17]
"Sancitore" [az96]
< *stap [az96]
see Latinized Sabo [az96: 25]
genitive Saris [az96, ag 1978, cb, gg 24 Feb 99, er 1 Mar 99]
sarvena "and ten" [mc91]
SarSnau "group of ten, decuria" [g/lb83 80]
*Sarsnax "tenth" [g/lb83 80]
< *Sari "ten" [az96, ag 1978, cb, gg, er]
see Akkadian eSeret, eSret, eSru [az96, ag 1978, cb, gg, er]
see Arabic as"r "ten" [az96, ag 1978, cb, gg 24 Feb 99, er 1 Mar 99]
see Proto-Semitic *3as'r- "ten" [az96, ag 1978, cb, gg, er]
non-Semitic e.g. Akkadian Sa:ru, Sar "3600" [mcv]
< *star/*ster [az96]
see zarve [az96]
see sut-, suth-, Sut-, Suth- etc. [g/lb83, mp68]
see English set [dep]
see Latin sedere "to sit" [dep]
see Sanskrit sadayati "he puts" [dep]
see Old Irish atsuidi "to retain) [dep]
see Gothic satjan "to put" [dep]
see Indo-European and Semitic *sed- [Schott 1936 cit. ag 79, mcv]
see Nostratic *SAtV "to sit" [ag 79, mcv 9 Feb 99]
< sât- [az96]
< *stah-at- "to hit, wound" [az96]
< *stakhat- 'to prick, afflict' [az 29 Mar 99]
Satna "companion, follower" [az96]
Satene "aedileship" [az96]
see Latin satura "sermon" [lrp 48, 57]
< *stat- [az96: 17]
satlnei female name [g/lb85: 145]
deity of fate or underworld, pars hostilis/pars postica [g/lb83, mp68: 251]
"(one who) hits, Acute, Sâturnus" [az96]
saturnia town [mp68: 192]
sauturine > suthrine, sutrine "wounder?, archer?, cobbler?" [az96]
Sauxnate "wounder" [az96, 29 Mar 99]
< Saukh- < *stakhuk- 'wound' [az96, 29 Mar 99]
savcne "wounding" > "examiner, haruspex?" [az96]
< *stahu-k- [az96]
see Latin *saucitor "wounder", sagittarius "archer", sûtor "cobbler" [az96]
see Latin saurocter "weapon of bronze or iron" [mp68]
see Latin saucio "wounded", sauciens "wounding" [az96]
Savlasie "sustain" [az96]
< *tzaul- < *staul- [az96]
derivative sxuinia [mp68]
see Latin scandere "to rise, climb" [az96]
see Latin Scarpus [g/lb83 58]
"pointed, harsh, one who incide" [az96]
see Latin scaeva "left-handed, awkward" [az96]
scunsi cates "expert observer" [az96]
scuvse "guard with care" [az96]
scuvunu "inspecting" [az96]
scvetu "attentive, well inspected" [az96]
< *scuvetu [az96]
< stêgha- [az96]
Sex-is, Sex-iS "daughter," genitive [az96, EB XXII:801, jf 139, jpm, g/lb83, mc91, mp68: 400, pa, dep, gm97]
see Tocharian B soy "son" [dep]
see Greek huius "son" [dep]
see Irish sutthe "birth" [dep]
< *sukt, sukte "the born one" [dep]
secu, secune (masc.), secunia (fem.) "sign, (which) signs, marks?" [az96]
Sekanei "to mark, sign" [az96]
< *sikh see zec [az96]
see Latin signare "to mark, sign" [az96]
see Latin sequens, secundus "following" [az96]
of Rhaetian origin?
"colonist" [az96]
sentiunum "colony" [az96: 28]
Selace "he dedicated" [mcv 8 Nov 96]
Seleita "instituted, ordered" [az96]
seleitala "of the goddess?" [mcv 8 Nov 96]
Seleta "(cosmic) order [az96]
< *stel [az96]
< *stembh- [az96]
< *stegh-em- [az96]
Semthne, Semtni "semitarius, path" [az96]
semphalx, semphalx-ls "seventy" [g/lb83, jf 141, mp68, pa]
semphz "seven times" [mc91]
see Indo-European *septm [ag 1978, mcv, az96, gg 24 Feb 99, g/lb83, mc91, mp68]
re-formed by analogy with cezp (8) and nurph (9) [ag 1978, mcv]
prob. < Semitic [b/k 32, cb, er, mcv]
see Hurrian Sitta, Sinda "seven" [ag 1978, mcv]
< *Swid- from Semitic [Klimov cit. ag 1978, mcv]
< *sen-/*san- "to bind, unite" [az96]
"sense" [az96]
< *Sep- < *step- [az96]
see Latin stîpes "log, post" [az96, 29 Mar 99]
cognomen [mc91: 125]
< *ster [az96]
Seril "to ruin, make sterile"
Serin "to stiffen" [az96]
Seru "to stiffen, stand, stop" [az96]
< *ster- "rigid" [az96]
< *stered- [az96, 29 Mar 99]
servus "servant, slave" Latin of Etruscan origin [rah 59, rc 214]
see Latin sedes "seat, residence, foundation" [az96]
sescatna "(who) places, plants, holds, down" [az96]
Sethal "to set up" [az96]
sethra, Sethra female name [mc91: 52, mp68: 395, pa]
sethre, sethrni, Sethre, Sethrni male name [g/lb83, mc91: 52, mp68: 395, pa]
"(which) hits, afflicts" [az96]
sethum- demon [mp68: 409]
Sethum-ati "well founded" [az96]
Sethums "Messenger (god)" [az96]
see Latin Stator [az96]
< *ste-t-/*sta-t- [az96]
< *Sekh-, *Sikh < *steigh [az96]
of Rhaetian origin?
sians "seer, observer" [az96]
sianS "father" [mcv 8 Nov 96]
Siiane "investigator, wounder?" [az96]
< *stigh-i-ane [az96]
Sikh- 'to sign; to investigate' [az 29 Mar 99]
see Greek Sîmos "snub-nosed" [g/lb83]
see Latin sinere "to permit, leave alone" [az96]
Sinu family name
see Latin Sentius [g/lb83 57]
cognomen [mc91: 123]
< *stip- "rigid" [az96]
see Latin stipulari "stipulate" [az96]
< *stirona [az96: 15]
see Latin situs "situated" [az96]
root of Sethum- [az96]
Sixaie "investigation" [az96]
< *stîg- "trace" [az96]
slapixu "passing away, fallen" [az96]
< *sleigh [az96]
see Latin libare "to taste, pour a libation" [az96]
"funereal" [am91]
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