摘要：DEVELOPMENT OF LITHUANIAN ADJECTIVES WITH THE SUFFIX *- lo - Summary A lot of traits of archaic merger of the adjective suffixes *- lo -, *- no - and *- ro - have been attested in Lithuanian, cf. Lith. le ĩ -las ‘slender, slim, thin’ (Latv. liels ‘big’), Lith. le ĩ nas ‘thin, flexible’ (OIc. linr , MIr. l í an ‘soft’) and Gk. λειρός ‘lean, thin; pole; weak’; Lith. tuk-l ù s , t ù k-nas , tuk-n ù s and tuk-r ù s ‘fat’. The synonymic usage of derivatives with - lus (- ì ) and - nus (- ì ) is especially characteristic of Lithuanian, cf. kim-l ù s (- ì ) and kim-n ù s (- ì ) ‘hoorse, raucous’, patrauk-l ù s (- ì ) and patrauk-n ù s (- ì ) ‘attractive, winning’ a. o. On the other hand, in Lithuanian deverbal adjectives with the old suffix - las (- a ) are going to become extinct under the press of very productive corresponding derivatives with the derivational ending - us (- i ). A little more new adjectives are formed with -lus (- i ) (i. e. with u -stem variant of the old suffix - las ) but the great part of them have equivalents in - us (- i ), cf. dyg-l ù s (- ì ) and dyg- ù s (- ì ) ‘mickly’ tįs-l ù s (- ì ) and tįs- ù s (- ì ) ‘extensive, lengthy’ a. o. Very few adjectives with the suffixes, based on *- lo -, are formed from nouns in Lithuanian. Some of them also have correspondences in other Indo-European languages, cf. Lith. ak- ý las ‘sarp-sightedlant’ : ak ì s ‘eye’ and Lat. cīv-īlis ‘civic, civil’ : cīvis ‘citizen’.
