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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 March 2026
The East Baltic stative verbs *stāw-ē- and *dēw-ē- do not derive from alleged Indo-European perfect forms in -w-. Their starting point must be seen in the otherwise well-known roots IE *stā- and *dhē-. The -w- is ultimately due to the active perfect participle, whose strong form IE *-wðs was abandoned in Baltic (and Slavic), but left its trace in a phonologic rule according to which vowel-initial suffixes were linked to roots ending in a long vowel by means of -w-.