laivas

Etymology
Variants within Lithuanian include dialectal, archaic ; 🇨🇬 is also cognate. Outside of Baltic, the relationship by borrowing to (🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬) is undisputed, leaving the question of which family had the word first. It is now identified as a borrowing from 🇨🇬 (cf. 🇨🇬) 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) ship large water vessel