uostyti

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Lithuanian

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Etymology

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Iterative form of úosti (to smell, sniff).[1] Cognate with Latvian uostit (to smell, sniff).

Pronunciation

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IPA(key): /ˈuəstʲiːtʲɪ/

Verb

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úostyti (third-person present tense úosto, third-person past tense úostė)

  1. (transitive) to smell

Conjugation

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References

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  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “uostyti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 482