The permissive mood is a
grammatical mood that indicates that the action is permitted by the speaker.
In Lithuanian
It is one of the
optative mood forms that survived (archaic) in
Lithuanian. It exists only in the 3rd person.
[Eugen Hill]
Stem Suppletion for Semantic Reconstruction: The Case of Indo-European Modals and East Baltic Future Tense Formations
Indo-European Linguistics, 2(1), 42-72. For example, a permissive mood of verb ''tekti'' (to run, to flow; about liquids; ''teka'', "
truns") is ''tetekiė́'' (let
trun). This form has also meaning of third-person
dual and
plural
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. One of the signs of the permissive mood is the prefix ''te-'' (of unknown origin
[); it is added (for primary verbs, which have bisyllabic stem in ]present tense
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and stressed ending in first-person present tense) to the form of third-person singular ancient optative mood or to the form of third-person singular indicative mood
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for the secondary verbs and for those primary verbs, which has unstressed ending in the first-person singular form (for example, the permissive mood of ''bė́gti'' (to run; 'bė́ga', eruns) is ''tebė́ga'', "let imrun").[''The Universal Cyclopaedia'', 1900]
p.560
/ref> More examples: wikt:lt:tedirbie, wikt:lt:teaugie.
See also
*Hortative
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References
Grammatical moods
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