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lanttu.

rutabaga (North America); swede (chiefly UK); Swedish turnip (chiefly US), Brassica napus var. napobrassica (plus a number of regional common names) (root and the plant)

6 characters2 syllables approx.Suomi language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈlɑntːu/[ˈlɑ̝n̪t̪ːu]
  1. rutabaga (North America); swede (chiefly UK); Swedish turnip (chiefly US), Brassica napus var. napobrassica (plus a number of regional common names) (root and the plant)

  2. head, brain, noodle (usually together with the verb leikata (“to cut”))

    colloquial
    Sillä kaverilla lanttu leikkaa.
    Eikö lanttu leikkaa?
Where this word comes from

From Swedish planta (“seedling”) > planttu > lanttu (unlike turnip, the plant needs to be grown from seedlings to reach maturity in Finland's short summer).

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.