-uoti
Lithuanian
Etymology
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
-úoti (third-person present tense -úoja, third-person past tense -ãvo)
- 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
- In newer and/or foreign derivations, often corresponds to Polish -ować, or East Slavic -аваць (-avacʹ), -овать (-ovatʹ), -увати (-uvaty).
Conjugation
| singular vienaskaita | plural daugiskaita | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | |||
| aš | tu | jis/ji | mes | jūs | jie/jos | |||
| indicative | present | -uoju | -uoji | -uoja | -uojame, -uojam |
-uojate, -uojat |
-uoja | |
| past | -avau | -avai | -avo | -avome, -avom |
-avote, -avot |
-avo | ||
| past frequentative | -uodavau | -uodavai | -uodavo | -uodavome, -uodavom |
-uodavote, -uodavot |
-uodavo | ||
| future | -uosiu | -uosi | -uos | -uosime, -uosim |
-uosite, -uosit |
-uos | ||
| subjunctive | -uočiau | -uotum, -uotumei |
-uotų | -uotumėme, -uotumėm, -uotume |
-uotumėte, -uotumėt |
-uotų | ||
| imperative | — | -uok, -uoki |
te-uoja, te-uojie |
-uokime, -uokim |
-uokite, -uokit |
te-uoja, te-uojie | ||
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Derived terms
Lithuanian terms suffixed with -uoti
References
- ^ Frederik Kortlandt (1995) “Lithuanian verbs in -auti and -uoti”, in Linguistica Baltica, volume 4, pages 141—143
- ^ Miguel Villanueva Svensson (2014) “The origins of the denominative type Lith. ‑áuti, ‑áuja, OCS ‑ovati, ‑ujǫ”, in Baltistica, volume 49, number 2, , pages 251–264