It is one of the
optative mood forms that survived (archaic) in
Lithuanian. It exists only in the 3rd person. For example, a permissive mood of verb
tekti (to run, to flow; about liquids;
teka, "[it] runs") is
tetekiė́ (let [it] run). This form has also meaning of third-person
dual and
plural. One of the signs of the permissive mood is the prefix
te- (of unknown origin More examples:
wikt:lt:tedirbie,
wikt:lt:teaugie. ==See also==