lauta

Inherited from Old Norse lúta, from Proto-Germanic *lūtaną, from Proto-Indo-European *lewd- (“to duck, crouch, feign, cringe, become small”).

lauta (present laut, plural lautum, preterite lot or låt or lut, supine lutið, past participle lutin)

1. (neuter verb) lean

• lautänd

lauta

1. partitive singular of laut
2. illative singular of laut

From Proto-Finnic *lauta (compare Estonian laud (“table”)), most likely borrowed from Proto-Baltic (compare Lithuanian plautas (“shelf”)), or alternatively from Proto-Germanic *flauþī (compare Norwegian Nynorsk flauta (“crossbeam in sleigh”)). The word has also been borrowed into Samic (compare Skolt Sami luʹvdd (“plank; float for seine”)).

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɑu̯tɑ/,
• Rhymes: -ɑutɑ
• Hyphenation^(key): lau‧ta

lauta

1. board (long, wide and thin piece of sawn timber)
2. board (long, wide and thin platform; the English translation is often board, but not necessarily always the other way around)

   šakkilauta ― chessboard

   silityslauta ― ironing board

   lainelauta ― surfboard

   lumilauta ― snowboard

   ponnahduslauta ― springboard

3. (colloquial, possibly derogatory) ironing board (a woman who has small breasts)
4. (in the plural, figurative) coffin

   Joku joutuu tätä vauhtia vielä lautoihin.

   If things keep going on like this, someone is going to end up six feet under.

• (timber): lauta is generally at least 75 mm wide and no more than 38 mm thick. Anything narrower is called rima, and anything thicker is lankku or parru.

• laude
• kakkosnelonen
• lankku
• rima
• sahatavara

• “lauta”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

• aulat, laatu, latua, taula

Borrowed from Esperanto laŭta, English loud, German laut.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlau̯.ta/

lauta

1. loud

• lauteskar

From Proto-Finnic *lauta. Cognates include Finnish lauta and Estonian laud.

The sense "table" is a semantic loan from a Southern Finnic language, either Estonian laud or Votic lautõ.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈlɑu̯tɑ/,
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈlɑu̯tɑ/,
• Rhymes: -ɑu̯t, -ɑu̯tɑ
• Hyphenation: lau‧ta

lauta

1. board
   • 1936, N. A. Iljin and V. I. Junus, Bukvari iƶoroin șkouluja vart, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 63:

     Lapset laatiit lavvan.

     The children made a board.

2. desk, table
3. Short for noottalauta.

• (table): kans, (dialectal) pöytä

• Fedor Tumansky (1790) “лавта”, in Опытъ повѣствованїя о дѣянїях, положенїи, состоянїи и раздѣленїи Санкт-Петербургской губернїи [An experiment of an account of the acts, location, condition and division of the Saint Petersburg gubernia], Краткїй словарь ижерскаго, финскаго, эстонскаго, чюдскаго, и ямскаго нарѣчїя съ россїйскимъ переводомъ [A short dictionary of the Ingrian, Finnish, Estonian, Chud and Yamtian dialects with a Russian translation], page 689
• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 252

lauta

1. feminine singular of lauto

lauta

1. inflection of lautus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

lautā

1. ablative feminine singular of lautus

From German Laute.

• IPA^(key): /lǎuta/
• Hyphenation: la‧u‧ta

làuta f (Cyrillic spelling ла̀ута)

1. lute (stringed instrument)

   Synonyms: lèut, lútnja