Some Lithuanian suffixed verbs derived from the present stems with -n-
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Jurgis Pakerys
Vilnius University, Lithuania
Published 2022-11-24
https://doi.org/10.15388/Baltistikos_platybese.2022.16
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Keywords

Lithuanian
suffixed verbs
present stem infix -n-
present stem suffix -n-

How to Cite

Pakerys, J. (2022) “Some Lithuanian suffixed verbs derived from the present stems with -n-”, Vilnius University Open Series, pp. 263–270. doi:10.15388/Baltistikos_platybese.2022.16.

Abstract

The paper discusses suffixed Lithuanian verbs derived from the bases with infixal or suffixal -n-. The most solid examples are the ones containing šąl- ‘get chilly, cool off’ with former infix (*ša-n-l-), e.g., šą́l-au-ti, šąl-én-ti ‘get chilly little by little’, and suffix -n-, e.g., at-ein-inė́-ti ‘come (iterative/imperfective)’ ←  at-eĩ-n-a ‘come(s)’. The infix of the base can be also seen in brand-ìn-ti ‘make ford’, -bund-in-ti ‘awaken (tr.)’, (pra-si-)bund-inė́-ti ‘wake up from time to time’  ← bre-ñ-d-a ‘ford(s)’, -bu-ñ-d-a ‘wake(s) up (itr.)’. However, there are cases when /n/ may be occasionally inserted before /d/ (= Dzūkian /d͡z/) that is followed by a suffixal syllable containing /n/, as in (pra-)bu-n-dinė́-ti ‘subsist, live’ and -važiuo-n-dinė́-ti ‘drive from time to time’ found alongside the main variants without n-insertion: bū-dinė́-ti, važiuo-dinė́-ti.

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