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lato.

barn, hovel, hayshed (unheated, inexpensively built roofed storage for agricultural equipment or products, especially hay or animal feed)

4 characters2 syllables approx.Suomi language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈlɑto/[ˈlɑ̝t̪o̞]
  1. barn, hovel, hayshed (unheated, inexpensively built roofed storage for agricultural equipment or products, especially hay or animal feed)

Where this word comes from

From Proto-Finnic *lato (compare Estonian ladu), borrowed from Proto-Norse *ᚺᛚᚨᚦᛟ (*hlaþō) (compare Old Norse hlaða, Swedish lada).

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