stotas
Lithuanian
Etymology
Deverbial to-stem noun from stóti (“to stand up”) + -tas with metatony[1] on the root stem. Cognate with Serbo-Croatian stȃs (“stature, build”).
Noun
stõtas m (plural stõtai) stress pattern 2[2]
- stature, build, shape, figure
- Synonym: figūrà
Declension
declension of stotas
| singular (vienaskaita) | plural (daugiskaita) | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative (vardininkas) | stõtas | stõtai |
| genitive (kilmininkas) | stõto | stõtų |
| dative (naudininkas) | stõtui | stõtams |
| accusative (galininkas) | stõtą | stotùs |
| instrumental (įnagininkas) | stotù | stõtais |
| locative (vietininkas) | stotè | stõtuose |
| vocative (šauksmininkas) | stõte | stõtai |
Related terms
- stotìs, stótis (“station”)
- stótvė (“stand”)
- stãtas (“state”)
- pãstatas (“building”) (neologism)
References
- Kim, Ronald (2018), “The Phonology of Balto-Slavic”, in Jared S. Klein, Brian Joseph, and Matthias Fritz, editors, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics: An International Handbook of Language Comparison and the Reconstruction of Indo-European, Berlin: de Gruyter, page 1982: “stóti ‘stand up’ : stõtas ‘shape, stature’”
- stotas in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Lithuanian language dictionary], lkz.lt