rahtu

Unknown. There are no known cognates, and theories about borrowing from Germanic or Baltic have been discarded.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɑhtu/, [ˈrɑ̝xt̪u]
• Rhymes: -ɑhtu
• Hyphenation^(key): rah‧tu

rahtu

1. A very small amount of something, a jot, an iota.

   Synonyms: hitunen, hiven, kipene, muru, murunen, rahtunen

   ei rahtuakaan ― not at all / not the slightest bit

2. (obsolete) Synonym of piste (“point”)

Nowadays mostly used in idioms, such as the one mentioned above.

• rahtunen

• “rahtu”, 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 2023-07-03

• turha