turta

• tuarta

From Latin turta. Thought to derive from tŏrta f (“twisted”), but this is problematic.

turta f

1. Four attached little loaves of bread; row of loaves attached by thin kissing crust.

From Proto-Finnic *turta (compare Estonian turd, Ingrian turra, Livonian turdõ).

• IPA^(key): /ˈturtɑ/, [ˈt̪urt̪ɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -urtɑ
• Syllabification^(key): tur‧ta
• Hyphenation^(key): tur‧ta

turta (comparative turrempi, superlative turrin or turroin)

1. numb, insensitive, asleep, deadened, insensible (physically unable to feel)
2. numb, stunned (emotionally unable to feel or respond in a normal way)

• (numb with cold): kohmeinen, kohmettunut, kohmeessa
• (stunned): puulla päähän lyöty

• “turta”, in Kielitoimiston 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–, retrieved 3 July 2023

• Arttu, rattu, tartu, tarut

• torta (Late Latin)^?

Of obscure origin.

First attested in the Vindolanda Tablets.^[1] Before the tablets were discovered, the Romance forms were assumed to have derived from Latin tŏrta f (“twisted”), which is also found as a noun in Late Latin (referring to a type of pastry). However, it was recognized even then that a derivation from tŏrta required assuming an unusual development of Latin ŏ.^[2]

Compare Ancient Greek τούρτα (toúrta, “cake of dates, flour, water, and oil baked covered in ashes”), which Watkins claims is from Egyptian t-rtḥ (“baked bread”),^[3] though it could have instead been borrowed from the Latin.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈtʊr.ta]

turta f (genitive turtae); first declension

1. a type of pastry

First-declension noun.

• tuorta (Sursilvan, Puter, Vallader)

From Latin turta.

turta f (plural turtas)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) flat, round cake with a fruit filling