Lithuanian edit

Etymology edit

Deverbal to-stem noun from stóti (to stand up) +‎ -tas with metatony[1] on the root stem. Cognate with Serbo-Croatian stȃs (stature, build).

Noun edit

stõtas m (plural stõtai) stress pattern 2[2]

  1. stature, build, shape, figure
    Synonym: figūrà

Declension edit

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References edit

  1. ^ Kim, Ronald (2018) “The Phonology of Balto-Slavic”, in Jared S. Klein, Brian Joseph, and Matthias Fritz, editors, Handbook of Comparative Indo-European Linguistics: An International Handbook[1], Berlin: de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 1982:stóti ‘stand up’ : stõtas ‘shape, stature’
  2. ^ stotas”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2024