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Where does “-us” come from?

-us (Lithuanian) comes from Proto-Indo-European -ós — Creates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...

-us (Lithuanian): Adjectival suffix, applied to verbal and nominal...

Definitions

  1. Adjectival suffix, applied to verbal and nominal...

Ancestry of “-us”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Indo-European-ósCreates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...

Words derived from “-us”

  • iškalbus
  • iškalbiai
  • kalbus
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