alsuoti

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Lithuanian

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Etymology

Cognate 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

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Verb

alsúoti (third-person present tense alsúoja, third-person past tense alsãvo)

  1. to breathe heavily, pant

Declension

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References

  1. ^ Smoczyński, Wojciech (2007) “ilsė́tis”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka litewskiego (in Polish), Vilnius: Uniwersytet Wileński, pages 219-20
  2. ^ 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