laiva

Etymology
From, borrowed from ; cognates include 🇨🇬. Compare also 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) ship (large) water vessel
 * 2)  nave
 * 1)  nave

Etymology
From. Cognates include 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) ship

Etymology
Cognates include 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬. Related to 🇨🇬, and thus 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) boat

Etymology
Cognates include 🇨🇬, dialectal, archaic. The relationship by borrowing to (🇨🇬 “ship; nave”, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬) is also undisputed, leaving the question of which family had the word first. It is now identified as a borrowing from 🇨🇬 (cf. 🇨🇬 “boat,” “raft”) into Finnic and thence Baltic, showing the Finnic sound law *vj > jv established by Koivulehto (1970). Earlier, a Baltic inherited origin had been sought. Karulis took the word to be perhaps originally used by Curonian fishermen and later spread to all the Eastern shore of the Baltic Sea, and offered the internal etymology, , from with an extra -w, from , from ; this theory would make the original meaning “bent, concave (object).”

Noun

 * 1) boat small vehicle for transporting people, goods, etc. on water