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ausčioti

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Lithuanian

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Etymology

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From Proto-Balto-Slavic *ouṣt- (*auṣt-?, ultimately from a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *h₁óh₃s (“mouth”), see also Latin ōs.[1] Cognate with Latvian aũšât (“to chatter, talk nonsense”), Proto-Slavic *ustiti.

Verb

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áusčioti (third-person present tense áusčioja, third-person past tense áusčiojo)

  1. to gossip, talk nonsense

References

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  • Derksen, Rick (2015) “ausčioti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 71
  1. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “784-85”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 784-85
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