tačiau

Lithuanian

Etymology

From an earlier *tat-jau; by surface analysis, tadà (“then, at that time”) +‎ jaũ (“already”).^[1] Likely cognate with Latvian taču (“but; yet”).

Pronunciation

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Conjunction

tačiaũ

but, yet
Gražus daiktas, tačiau nieko vertas.
A beautiful thing yet worth nothing.

Usage notes

Like its Latvian cognate, this is an adversative conjunction, indicating contrast, outcome opposite to expectations, etc.

Coordinate terms

bet

References

^ Wojciech Smoczyński (2018) “tačiaũ”, in Lithuanian Etymological Dictionary, Berlin, Germany: Peter Lang, →DOI, →ISBN, page 657

[1] Wojciech Smoczyński (2018) “tačiaũ”, in Lithuanian Etymological Dictionary, Berlin, Germany: Peter Lang, →DOI, →ISBN, page 657

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