ranta.
shore, strand, coast (the border of a body of water and land in general)
Meaning & usage
shore, strand, coast (the border of a body of water and land in general)
beach (sandy shore)
Mennään rannalle!
bank (shore of a river)
oikea ranta
vasen ranta
Where this word comes from
From Proto-Finnic *ranta (compare Estonian rand, Veps rand), borrowed from either Proto-Norse [script needed] (*stranða), Proto-Germanic *strandō (compare Swedish strand (“beach”)) or from Proto-Baltic *kranta (compare Lithuanian krantas (“beach, shore”)).
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