-aip
Lithuanian
Alternative forms
- -iaĩp
Etymology
For kaĩp, taĩp, previous attested forms were Old Lithuanian kaipo, taipo. The stems are easy to explain (kaĩ, taĩ, etc.)
- One hypothesis to explain the -po is that it is cognate to Latin -pe, as in Latin quippe.[1][2]
- Another hypothesis is that -po originates from the preposition põ.[3] Compare kodė̃l, which is suffixed by a preposition that normally precedes its complement.
Suffix
-aĩp
- (unproductive) Forms adverbs from pronominal stems.
Further reading
- Vytautas Ambrazas (2006), “3. Morphology § 6.8”, in Lithuanian Grammar, 2nd revised edition, page 381
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2011) Comparative Indo-European Linguistics: An Introduction, revised and corrected by Michiel de Vaan, 2nd edition, Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, page 249
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 452–453
- Quora answer by Anthony Jakob