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]

  1. 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

References
  1. 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’”
  2. stotas in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Lithuanian language dictionary], lkz.lt
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