<span><span><span>The Latin fifth declension and the Baltic -</span></span></span><span><span><span><em>ē</em></span></span></span><span><span><span>-stems</span></span></span>

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to present the history of the comparison made by scholars between the Latin fifth declension and the Baltic -ē-stems and to decide whether both of those formations could go back to a common Indo-European source. It is claimed that the *-eh1- nominal stems did not exist as such in the proto-language and that both the Baltic -ē-stems and the Latin fifth declension are secondary developments of other Indo-European formations.

Keywords

• Baltic
• Latin
• Indo-European
• historical morphology
• nominal derivation
• -ē-stems
• fifth declension