-auti

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Lithuanian

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Etymology

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Cognate with Old Prussian -aut, Proto-Slavic *-ovati.[1] It has further been connected to the similar suffix -úoti, Latvian -uot, although the relationship is debated.[2][1]

Suffix

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-áuti (third-person present tense -áuja, third-person past tense -ãvo)

  1. Forms verbs from other parts of speech, especially in meaning "to act as (someone or something)".
    grybas (mushroom) + ‎-auti → ‎grybauti (to pick mushrooms)
    pamokslas (sermon) + ‎-auti → ‎pamokslauti (to sermonize, preach)
    vyras (man male) + ‎-auti → ‎vyrauti (to dominate, prevail)

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 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
  2. ^ Frederik Kortlandt (1995) “Lithuanian verbs in -auti and -uoti”, in Linguistica Baltica, volume 4, pages 141—143