Re: Perfect passive participle

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "cafaristeir" <cafaristeir@...> wrote:

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> I know that the IE active participle of present and aorist is in -nt, while the perfect has -wos/-us.
> Likewise, the passive participle of present and aorist is in -mH1no-

There's no ev. for -H1- or any other H here.

> In my opinion, the prefix -to/-no was used in PIE not for a passive participle, but for a verbal adjective, as in Old Greek.
> Ex: *bheid = "to split; *bhidstos = "fissile"
> "weid" = "to know, learn"; *widstos = "knowledgeable"
>
> What is your opinion about ?

It's probably a Greek innovation. It's unlikely so many other branches besides Greek would have the same meaning as a shared innovation, rather than a shared retention.