As a recurring connection of names for shield in the Indo-European languages is that with words for „board“, properly applied to a wooden shield, Lith. skỹdas, skydà (acc. sing, skỹdą) „shield” and then-counterparts in Latvian šķīda, šķīdre „id.” seem etymologically to belong to the group of words Lith. skiedrà „chip, sliver, shingle (for roofing)”, skiedà „id.”, Latv. skaîda, skaids „chip; shingle”.
Some of the North European words for spoon reflect development of a wooden spoon from a flat chip or a splinter. This development is shared also by Lith. šáukštas „spoon”, an old suffix -sta- nomen instrumenti, with regular root vowel interchange áu : ū́/u connected with Lith. šùkė „splinter; chipped place, spot”, Latv. suķe, suķis „id.”, sûce „chipped place, spot”, OInd. ṡūkaḥ, ṡūkam „awn of grain; spike of in insect”, Av. sūkā- „needle”.
It is almost certain that Prussian lapinis „spoon“ is an indiginous Baltic word with connexions in Slavic and possibly Latvian.
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