šaukštas

A spoon; a utensil with a small bowl-shaped end, used for eating, serving, or stirring food.

Etymology

An inherited Baltic word; compare Latvian forms for related spoon-like implements.

Collocations

A spoonful; an amount that can be held in a spoon, especially as a cooking measure.

Etymology

A semantic extension of the utensil sense: the implement came to denote the quantity it holds.

Collocations