ladu

• IPA^(key): [ˈladu]

ladu

1. dative/locative singular of lado

From Proto-Finnic *lato, borrowed from Proto-Norse *ᚺᛚᚨᚦᛟ (*hlaþō). Cognate with Finnish lato.

ladu (genitive lao, partitive ladu)

1. warehouse, storehouse, store
2. (printing) typesetting

Declension of ladu (ÕS type 18/nägu, d-ø gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		ladu	laod
accusative	nom.
	gen.	lao
genitive			ladude
partitive		ladu	ladusid
illative		lattu laosse	ladudesse
inessive		laos	ladudes
elative		laost	ladudest
allative		laole	ladudele
adessive		laol	ladudel
ablative		laolt	ladudelt
translative		laoks	ladudeks
terminative		laoni	ladudeni
essive		laona	ladudena
abessive		laota	ladudeta
comitative		laoga	ladudega

• “ladu”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
• “ladu”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012

From Portuguese lado.

ladu

1. side

Cognate with Lhao Vo dau and Burmese တူ (tu).

ladu

1. hammer

• Dr. Ola Hanson, A Dictionary of the Kachin Language (1906).

ladu (construct laduhn)

1. male servant

• Harrison, Sheldon P., Mokilese-English Dictionary, University of Hawaii Press 1977

• IPA^(key): /ˈl̪a.d̪u/

ladu

1. (transitive) to peel, pare, skin

Conjugation of ladu (action verb)
		singular	plural
			inclusive	exclusive
1st person		taladu	maladu	aladu
2nd person		naladu	faladu
3rd person	inanimate	iladu	daladu
	animate
imperative		naladu, ladu	faladu, ladu

• James Collins (1982) Further Notes Towards a West Makian Vocabulary‎^[1], Pacific linguistics