alsuoti
Lithuanian
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editCognate 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.[1][2]
Pronunciation
editVerb
editalsúoti (third-person present tense alsúoja, third-person past tense alsãvo)
Declension
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Related terms
editReferences
edit- ^ Smoczyński, Wojciech (2007) “ilsė́tis”, in Słownik etymologiczny je̜zyka litewskiego[1] (in Polish), Vilnius: Uniwersytet Wileński, pages 219-20
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “ilsėti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 200