potent, potential and potentate. In Lithuanian, pats as a standalone word came to mean husband, himself (patis in Old Lithuanian), as did pati in Hindi/ Hindustani. Common usage Rashtrapati Pashupati Ganapati Vāstoṣpati Vacaspati Brhaspati Ksetrapati Chhatrapati Sethupathi Crorepati References Titles in India Suffixes Hindustani language