This underlines again that a contrast of nominality versus verbality conveys a stative versus fientive purport.
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Fientive
//fiˈ(j)ɛntɪv//
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The basic idea is that what previous scholarship categorised as a stative, viz. the various forms going back to a derivation with a long ē, is in fact a fientive, i.e. it designates the becoming and not the being.
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