Lithuanian edit

Etymology edit

Cognate with Old Prussian -aut, Proto-Slavic *-ovati.[1] It has further been connected to the similar suffix -úoti, Latvian -uot, although the relationship is debated.[2][1]

Suffix edit

-áuti (third-person present tense -áuja, third-person past tense -ãvo)

  1. Forms verbs from other parts of speech.
    grybas (mushroom) + ‎-auti → ‎grybauti (to pick mushrooms)

Conjugation edit

Derived terms edit

References edit

  1. 1.0 1.1 Miguel Villanueva Svensson (2014) “The origins of the denominative type Lith. ‑áuti, ‑áuja, OCS ‑ovati, ‑ujǫ”, in Baltistica, volume 49, number 2, →DOI, pages 251–264
  2. ^ Frederik Kortlandt (1995) “Lithuanian verbs in -auti and -uoti”, in Linguistica Baltica, volume 4, pages 141—143