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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@...>
wrote:
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> My own hypothesis is that, in the language from which PIE is
derived, there was a word *T?SA, which meant 'body'; and from this,
the middle (actually reflexive) endings in -*dh in IE are derived.
>
> Patrick
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Arnaud
As far as I understand active versus medio-passive,
active means that the (grammatical) subject is (thought to be) in
control of the process (described by the verb).
medio-passive means that the (grammatical) subject does not control
the process but takes part in that process as a kind of instrument,
not as a kind of cause or agent :
hence to get born, to flow, day-break occurs etc are medio-passive.
Arnaud