-r passive archaic or innovating?

[Patrick C. Ryan]

Dear Carol and IEists:

 ----- Original Message -----
From: "Carol F. Justus" <cjustus at mail.utexas.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2000 2:00 PM

[ moderator snip ]

For whatever it may be worth, I believe I have isolated a PIE element *re/o,
meaning 'any', so that the medio-passive forms with -r- should be regarded
as indefinites.

Pat

PATRICK C. RYAN | PROTO-LANGUAGE at email.msn.com (501) 227-9947 * 9115 W. 34th
St. Little Rock, AR 72204-4441 USA WEBPAGES: PROTO-LANGUAGE:
http://www.geocities.com/proto-language/ and PROTO-RELIGION:
http://www.geocities.com/proto-language/proto-religion/indexR.html "Veit ek,
at ek hekk, vindga meipi, nftr allar nmu, geiri undapr . . . a ~eim meipi er
mangi veit hvers hann af rstum renn." (Havamal 138)