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From two sources, both reflecting earlier*-ōjaną:
Cognates includeLatin-āre(the whole first conjugation in the present) together with itsProto-Italic ancestor*-āō,Ancient Greek-άω(-áō,contracted verb),-अयति(-ayati) (for the causative inSanskrit),Proto-Celtic*-āti andProto-Balto-Slavic*-ā́ˀtei (whence the infiniteProto-Slavic*-ati, referring again to the whole conjugation).Note that Ringe (2017) reconstructs this suffix with a trimoraic vowel,*-ôną (or, following his own conventions,*-ō̄ną). See Ringe (2017: 160).
*-ōną
This class eventually became the dominant and most productive verb class in all daughter languages.