Reflexes Of Indo‐European ‘Ē‐Statives’ In Old Indic

The paper addresses the reconstruction of the Indo-European verbal derivational category that is conventionally called ‘ē-statives’ can be illustrated by Lat. sen-ē-re ‘to be old’ or tac-ē-re ‘to be silent’. Its empirical contribution consists in tracing the Old Indicreflexes of ‘ē-statives’, which have not been systematically investigated up to now. The analysis of the new data is conducive to the conclusion that that the Indo-European stative suffix *-eh1-ie/o- was originally typical of denominative verbs belonging to the Caland System. Its subsequent spread to primary verbs was implemented indifferent ways in individual ancient Indo-European languages, and therefore need not be projected into Proto-Indo-European.