Re: PIE meaning of the Germanic dental preterit

On Sat, 01 Mar 2008 23:06:04 -0000, "tgpedersen"
<tgpedersen@...> wrote:

>
>> Against an imperfect argues the fact that there is no
>> overlap (and no difference in meaning) between strong and
>> weak preterites in attested Gmc. Strong verbs of course
>> don't have a ptc. in *-to- (they have it in *-eno-), but the
>> question then is: what happened to the imperfect in *-ena
>> ðeðe:?
>
>But strong verbs have a passive in Gothic (and since it's PIE,
>presumably PGerm. did too): 3sg bairaða.

Don't weak verbs have a passive too?

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