tačiau
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Lithuanian
Etymology
From an earlier *tat-jau; by surface analysis, tadà (“then, at that time”) + jaũ (“already”).[1] Likely cognate with Latvian taču (“but; yet”).
Pronunciation
Conjunction
tačiaũ
Usage notes
Like its Latvian cognate, this is an adversative conjunction, indicating contrast, outcome opposite to expectations, etc.
Coordinate terms
References
- ^ Wojciech Smoczyński (2018) “tačiaũ”, in Lithuanian Etymological Dictionary, Berlin, Germany: Peter Lang, , →ISBN, page 657