Latin -mini 2pl passive; high-order characters in titles

From: MCLSSAA2@...
Message: 7300
Date: 2001-05-10

--- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> Unpronounceable?? What was the mysterious ending that became
> unpronounceable with an "r" appended to it? ...

In Celtic (e.g. Irish) this -r suffix is impersonal active and is used
instead of the personal suffix, and it may have been ditto in early
Latin at first. By the time its use was shifting to a passiviser in
Latin, the Latin 2nd plural active ending had become *-tis or *-tes as
in {amatis} = "y'all love". Here the -r passivizing suffix would have
produced **{amatesr} or **{amatisr} for "y'all are loved". So they
resorted to the periphrastic form *{amamenoi estes} instead, likely.

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In the thread "Re: [tied] Latin -ô / -ônis endings", the accented
(high-order) characters display in message titles in Yahoo's archives
illegibly as raw MIME-code: Re:_[tied]_Latin_-=F4_/_-=F4nis_en