lauta
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Etymology
Inherited from Old Norse lúta, from Proto-Germanic *lūtaną, from Proto-Indo-European *lewd- (“to duck, crouch, feign, cringe, become small”).
Verb
lauta (present laut, plural lautum, preterite lot or låt or lut, supine lutið, past participle lutin)
- (neuter verb) lean
Conjugation
Conjugation of lauta — active
Derived terms
- lautänd
Noun
lauta
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Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *lauta (compare Estonian laud (“table”)), most likely borrowed from Proto-Baltic [Term?] (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”)).
Pronunciation
Noun
lauta
- board (long, wide and thin piece of sawn timber)
- 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
- (colloquial, possibly derogatory) ironing board (a woman who has small breasts)
- (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.
Usage notes
Declension
| Inflection of lauta (Kotus type 9*F/kala, t-d gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | lauta | laudat | |
| genitive | laudan | lautojen | |
| partitive | lautaa | lautoja | |
| illative | lautaan | lautoihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | lauta | laudat | |
| accusative | nom. | lauta | laudat |
| gen. | laudan | ||
| genitive | laudan | lautojen lautain rare | |
| partitive | lautaa | lautoja | |
| inessive | laudassa | laudoissa | |
| elative | laudasta | laudoista | |
| illative | lautaan | lautoihin | |
| adessive | laudalla | laudoilla | |
| ablative | laudalta | laudoilta | |
| allative | laudalle | laudoille | |
| essive | lautana | lautoina | |
| translative | laudaksi | laudoiksi | |
| abessive | laudatta | laudoitta | |
| instructive | — | laudoin | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
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Derived terms
compounds
- astinlauta
- harjalauta
- harjuslauta
- harrilauta
- hihalauta
- hikilaudat
- honkalauta
- hyppylauta
- ikkunalauta
- ilmalauta
- istuinlauta
- jukolauta
- juustolauta
- jätelauta
- jäälauta
- kalalauta
- karsikkolauta
- kattolauta
- kaulauslauta
- keinulauta
- kerinlauta
- kiikkulauta
- kimpilauta
- koelauta
- koivulauta
- kojelauta
- kuusilauta
- kynnyslauta
- käpälälauta
- lainelauta
- laskulauta
- lattialauta
- laudankappale
- laudanpätkä
- lauta-aita
- lautakasa
- lautakate
- lautakatto
- lautakeinu
- lautakunta
- lautalaskos
- lautalattia
- lautamies
- Lautamäki
- lautanauha
- lautaparketti
- lautapeli
- lautapoika
- lautapurjehdus
- lautaseinä
- lautatapuli
- lautatarha
- lautatavara
- lautaverhous
- lautavuoraus
- leikkuulauta
- leipälauta
- lintulauta
- lumilauta
- mäntylauta
- nurkkalauta
- otelauta
- otsalauta
- Ouija-lauta
- paneelilauta
- pelilauta
- penkkilauta
- perkuulauta
- perälauta
- pielilauta
- piirustuslauta
- pintalauta
- pohjalauta
- ponnahduslauta
- ponnistuslauta
- ponttilauta
- potkulauta
- purjelauta
- pyykkilauta
- päänaluslauta
- raakalauta
- rankalauta
- reunalauta
- rimalauta
- rullalauta
- ruodelauta
- ruokintalauta
- ruumislauta
- sakkilauta
- šakkilauta
- seinälauta
- selkälauta
- shakkilauta
- silityslauta
- skeittilauta
- surffauslauta
- surffilauta
- sähkölauta
- tammilauta
- tasapainolauta
- tuulilauta
- tynnyrilauta
- uimalauta
- ulkolauta
- vaakalauta
- varvaslauta
- vatsalauta
- verholauta
- vesilauta
- vuorauslauta
- vuorilauta
See also
Further reading
- “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
Anagrams
Etymology
Pronunciation
Adjective
lauta
Derived terms
Etymology
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.
Pronunciation
Noun
lauta
- 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.
- desk, table
- Short for noottalauta.
Declension
| Declension of lauta (type 3/kana, aut-avv gradation) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | lauta | lavvat |
| genitive | lavvan | lautoin |
| partitive | lautaa | lautoja |
| illative | lautaa | lautoi |
| inessive | lavvaas | lavvois |
| elative | lavvast | lavvoist |
| allative | lavvalle | lavvoille |
| adessive | lavvaal | lavvoil |
| ablative | lavvalt | lavvoilt |
| translative | lavvaks | lavvoiks |
| essive | lautanna, lautaan | lautoinna, lautoin |
| exessive1) | lautant | lautoint |
| 1) obsolete *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive. | ||
Synonyms
Derived terms
References
- 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
Adjective
lauta
Participle
lauta
- inflection of lautus:
Participle
lautā
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
làuta f (Cyrillic spelling ла̀ута)
Declension
Declension of lauta
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