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Lithuanian
Etymology
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Suffix
-õnė f (plural -õnės) stress pattern 2
- Forms nouns from verbs.
- svajoti (“to dream, fantasize”) + -onė → svajonė (“daydream”)
Declension
Further reading
- Antanas Klimas (1974) “Studies on word-formation in Lithuanian”, in Lituanus, volume 20, number 3, archived from the original on 26 October 2021
- Vytautas Ambrazas (2006) Lithuanian Grammar, 2nd revised edition, →ISBN, page 130