Re: The Meanings of Middle, or mana kartam

> Now, by this mistake, we have created a new preterite. Also, its
> semantics will oscillate between "it is done for me" and "it is done
> by me", same as we observe in the middle. Note that in Skt. the
> aor.mid.3sg ending is -ta, the Greek and IndoIranian forms together
> suggest that a middle could have been formed by analogy: pret. *-mo,
> *-so, *-to; *-nto, pres. with *-i *-moi, *-soi, *-toi; *-ntoi.

Which means that the middle must have begun as an impersonal, with
forms only in the 3rd pres., pret *-to, *-n-to, pres *-toi, *-n-toi,
or possibly without the -t- (my '4sg') *-o, *-r-o, pres *-oi, *-r-oi.


Torsten