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-auti
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Lithuanian
Etymology
Cognate with prg -aut, sla-pro *-ovati.Miguel Villanueva Svensson The origins of the denominative type Lith. ‑áuti, ‑áuja, OCS ‑ovati, ‑ujǫ Baltistica 2014 251–264 49 2 10.15388/baltistica.49.2.2221 It has further been connected to the similar suffix lt -úoti, lv -ôt -uôt, although the relationship is debated.Lithuanian verbs in -auti and -uoti Frederik Kortlandt Linguistica Baltica 4 1995 141—143
Pronunciation
-áuti
Suffix
-áuti -áuja -ãvo
Forms verbs from other parts of speech, especially in meaning "to act as (someone or something)".
lt grybas mushroom grybauti to pick mushrooms
lt pamokslas sermon pamokslauti to sermonize, preach
lt vyras man male vyrauti to dominate, prevail
Conjugation
-auj -av -au
Derived terms
lt
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