-uoti

Lithuanian

Etymology

Possibly cognate with the similar suffix -auti, corresponding to Latvian -uot, Old Prussian -aut, Proto-Slavic *-ovati.[1]

Suffix

-úoti (third-person present tense -úoja, third-person past tense -ãvo)

  1. Forms verbs from other parts of speech.
    skaičius (number) + -uotiskaičiuoti (to count)

Conjugation

Derived terms

Lithuanian words suffixed with -uoti

References

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