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-aip
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Lithuanian
Alternative forms
lt -iaĩp
Etymology
For lt kaĩp, lt taĩp, previous attested forms were olt kaipo, olt taipo. The stems are easy to explain (lt kaĩ, lt taĩ, etc.)
One hypothesis to explain -po is that it is cognate to la -pe, as in la quippe.249452–453
Another hypothesis is that -po originates from the preposition lt põ.Quora answer by Anthony Jakob Compare lt kodė̃l, which is suffixed by a preposition that normally precedes its complement.
Pronunciation
-ai̇̃p
Suffix
lt suffix -aĩp adverb-forming suffixes
Forms adverbs, with the meaning "in [such] way", from pronominal stems.
lt kitas another kitaip in another way
Derived terms
lt
References
Further reading
3. Morphology § 6.8 381