-uoti

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Lithuanian

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Etymology

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Cognate with Latvian -uot. The suffix has also been compared to the similar -áuti, which is further related to Old Prussian -aut and Proto-Slavic *-ovati, but the plausibility of the "uo" sound change is debated.[1][2]

Suffix

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-úoti (third-person present tense -úoja, third-person past tense -ãvo)

  1. Forms verbs from other parts of speech, in the meaning of generally activity.
    skaičius (number) + ‎-uoti → ‎skaičiuoti (to count)
    vairas (steer) + ‎-uoti → ‎vairuoti (to steer)

Usage notes

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Conjugation

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Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Frederik Kortlandt (1995) “Lithuanian verbs in -auti and -uoti”, in Linguistica Baltica, volume 4, pages 141—143
  2. ^ 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