Inherited fromOld Norselúta, fromProto-Germanic*lūtaną, fromProto-Indo-European*lewd-(“to duck, crouch, feign, cringe, become small”).

lauta (presentlaut,plurallautum,preteritelotorlåtorlut,supinelutið,past participlelutin)

1. (neuter verb)lean

• lautänd

lauta

1. partitivesingular oflaut
2. illativesingular oflaut

FromProto-Finnic*lauta (compareEstonianlaud(“table”)), most likely borrowed fromProto-Baltic[Term?] (compareLithuanianplautas(“shelf”)), or alternatively fromProto-Germanic*flauþī (compareNorwegian Nynorskflauta(“crossbeam in sleigh”)). The word has also been borrowed into Samic (compareSkolt Samiluʹvdd(“plank; float forseine”)).

• IPA^(key):/ˈlɑu̯tɑ/,[ˈlɑ̝u̯t̪ɑ̝]
• Rhymes:-ɑutɑ
• Syllabification^(key):lau‧ta
• 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 oftenboard, but not necessarily always the other way around)

   šakkilauta ―chessboard

   silityslauta ―ironingboard

   lainelauta ―surfboard

   lumilauta ―snowboard

   ponnahduslauta ―springboard

3. (colloquial, possiblyderogatory)ironing board(a woman who has small breasts)
4. (in theplural,figurative)coffin

   Joku joutuu tätä vauhtia vielälautoihin.

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

• (timber):lauta is generally at least 75 mm wide and no more than 38 mm thick. Anything narrower is calledrima, and anything thicker islankku orparru.

• laude
• kakkosnelonen
• lankku
• rima
• sahatavara

• “lauta”, inKielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki:Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland),2004–, retrieved2023-07-02

• aulat,laatu,latua,taula

Borrowed from Esperantolaŭta, Englishloud, Germanlaut.

• IPA^(key):/ˈlau̯.ta/

lauta

1. loud

• lauteskar

FromProto-Finnic*lauta. Cognates includeFinnishlauta andEstonianlaud.

The sense "table" is asemantic loan from a SouthernFinnic language, eitherEstonianlaud orVoticlautõ.

• (Ala-Laukaa)IPA^(key):/ˈlɑu̯tɑ/,[ˈɫɑu̯t]
• (Soikkola)IPA^(key):/ˈlɑu̯tɑ/,[ˈɫɑu̯d̥ɑ]
• 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, page63:

     Lapset laatiitlavvan.

     The children madea board.

2. desk,table
3. Short fornoottalauta.

• (table):kans,(dialectal)pöytä

• Fedor Tumansky (1790) “лавта”, inОпытъ 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], page689
• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971)Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page252

lauta

1. femininesingular oflauto

lauta

1. inflection oflautus:
   1. nominative/vocativefemininesingular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocativeneuterplural

lautā

1. ablativefemininesingular oflautus

FromGermanLaute.

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

làuta f (Cyrillic spellingла̀ута)

1. lute (stringed instrument)

   Synonyms:lèut,lútnja