alsuoti

Lithuanian

Alternative forms

elsúoti

Etymology

Cognate with Latvian elsuot (“to cough, sob, pant”), with further origin outside of Baltic unclear. The semantically closest root with a superficial phonetic similarity, Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁- (“quiet, calm”), cannot produce the Baltic terms.^[1]^[2]

Pronunciation

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Verb

alsúoti (third-person present tense alsúoja, third-person past tense alsãvo)

to breathe heavily, pant

Declension

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Related terms

al̃sas (“fatigue, weariness”)
ilsė́ti (“to rest”)

References

^ Smoczyński, Wojciech (2007) “ilsė́tis”, in Słownik etymologiczny je̜zyka litewskiego‎^[1] (in Polish), Vilnius: Uniwersytet Wileński, pages 219-20
^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “ilsėti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 200

[1] Smoczyński, Wojciech (2007) “ilsė́tis”, in Słownik etymologiczny je̜zyka litewskiego‎^[1] (in Polish), Vilnius: Uniwersytet Wileński, pages 219-20

[2] Derksen, Rick (2015) “ilsėti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 200

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