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Where does “laba” come from?
laba (Karelian) comes from Proto-Finnic lapa, from Proto-Uralic lapa — blade.
laba
(Karelian): blade
Definitions
blade
Ancestry of “laba”, step by step
Step
Language
Word
Meaning
1
Proto-Finnic
lapa
blade
2
Proto-Uralic
lapa
blade
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