Re: The lost indo-european tongue (was: the lost romance tongue)

On Monday, January 31, 2000 2:24 AM raccoon wrote:

> > moigator = change- present 3rd person singular mediopassive indicative
> > moigamosae = change- present 1st person plural passive indicative.
>
> This and Padraic's IE language look really cool, but then I'm a PIE buff.
> However, I thought there was only one passive-like voice in PIE, called
> variously middle, passive, or mediopassive depending on which daughter
> language one is referring to. Non?
Indeed. As far as I know PIE only had two voices: active and mediopassive
(note that mediopassives in -r are a particularly archaic feature found in
Celtic - the welsh impersonal inflection - and Latin, and of course Aredos).
However, following Sanskrit (which has active, mediopassive and passive) and
ancient Greek (likewise), I added the passive inflection. This innovation
dates to the early Carastic period of Aredos. It simply adds -ae to the
person ending (note ae = ai).

Here's another example of Aredos (I'm sure Padraic will provide us with
another example of Tallarian if we ask nicely. What does Tallarian mean,
BTW?). This is one of many Aredos proverbs:
ne ommis cuí caenans habent, caenatores senti "Not all who have flutes are
flautists".