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Lahti.

A placename:

5 characters2 syllables approx.Suomi language

Meaning & usage

name/ˈlɑhti/[ˈlɑ̝xt̪i]

  1. A placename: Lahti (a city and municipality, the capital of Päijänne Tavastia, Finland)

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  2. A placename: Any of a number of small localities in Finland

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  3. a Finnish surname, Lahti, from landscape

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Where this word comes from

From lahti (“bay”). The Tavastian town is named after its location (by a bay), and its name is first attested as Lactis in 1445. The surname is partly from place names, but also popular in the Fennicization of surnames in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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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.