Re: [tied] Re: -(t)er

From: Miguel Carrasquer
Message: 33764
Date: 2004-08-11

On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 09:39:03 +0000, tgpedersen
<tgpedersen@...> wrote:

>--- 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.

Both from *-tor. (*-ter would have given *-cär).

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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