stotas

Lithuanian

Etymology

Deverbal 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]

  1. stature, build, shape, figure
    Synonym: figūrà

Declension
Declension of stõtas
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

References
  1. Kim, Ronald (2018) “The Phonology of Balto-Slavic”, in Jared S. Klein, Brian Joseph, and Matthias Fritz, editors, Handbook of Comparative Indo-European Linguistics: An International Handbook‎, Berlin: de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 1982: “stóti ‘stand up’ : stõtas ‘shape, stature’”
  2. “stotas”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2024
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