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lehti.

leaf (part of a plant)

5 characters2 syllables approx.Suomi language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈlehti/[ˈle̞ht̪i]
  1. leaf (part of a plant)

  2. foliage (leaves of a plant collectively)

    in-plural
  3. leaf (anything resembling the leaf of a plant)

  4. leaf (sheet of any substance beaten or rolled until very thin)

  5. leaf (sheet of a book)

  6. ellipsis of sanomalehti (“newspaper”)

    abbreviation · alt-of · ellipsis
  7. ellipsis of aikakauslehti (“magazine”)

    abbreviation · alt-of · ellipsis
  8. reed (part of an aerophone musical instrument such as a clarinet)

  9. blade (of an arrowhead or a spearhead)

  10. leaf (tree node without descendants)

Where this word comes from

From Proto-Finnic *lehti (compare Estonian leht), probably borrowed from Baltic (compare Lithuanian lai̇̃škas, Russian лист (list, “leaf; sheet; certificate”)).

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