The paper addresses the reconstruction of the Indo-European verbal derivational category that is conventionally called ' e-statives' can be illustrated by Lat. sen-e-re 'to be old' or tac-e-re 'to be silent'. Its empirical contribution consists in tracing the Old Indicreflexes of ' e-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 *-eh 1 -i̯ e/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.