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

On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 10:39:49 +0000, tgpedersen
<tgpedersen@...> wrote:

>--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:
>> 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).
>>
>
>Hm. At least Dutch 'daar', Engl. 'there' shows it must have been
>*te/or.

1. Dutch 'daar', Engl. 'there' are not 3sg. middle endings.
2. OE þa:r/þæ:r has a long vowel (*te:r).


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