Re: -(t)er

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

> > Odd thing is, medio-passives in other IE languages (Italic,

Celtic,

> > Tocharian, Hittite) use the same *(t)er as a suffix in medio-

passive

> > standing for impersonal statements.
>
> Latin uses -tur < *-to-r, not -ter.
>

I should have written *-te/or. Tocharian has -tär and -tar.

Torsten