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.

Verb

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

1. to breathe heavily, pant

Declension

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Related terms

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