klaips

Etymology
Cognates include 🇨🇬, and possibly 🇨🇬 (🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬). Possibly ultimately from nominalized to mean "disk, wheel, circle" (from the same root also 🇨🇬) because historically bread was a round, thin, hard flatbread. From the zero-grade 🇨🇬 &gt; 🇨🇬 whence the two Baltic terms.

Karulis notes that it has been a wandering Kulturwort as well, in Eastern Europe the word was spread during Gothic migrations and has thus been borrowed into Slavic with its Gothic meaning of "bread," while the Baltic languages retain the original meaning of "loaf."

An alternative view (Endzelīns, Trubačov) is that the word is a borrowing from. Another view (Būga, Otkupščikov) is that the word is an inherited Baltic word from, Karulis is critical of this proposal because the brittle flatbreads of the time were not sliced, pieces were simply broken off from them.

Noun

 * 1) loaf

Usage notes
Some use to refer to a loaf of dark rye bread and  for a loaf of white bread but there is no set rule. Karulis notes that this division used to be more concrete earlier &mdash; in the 17th century klaips was specifically a large loaf of dark rye bread.