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|artikkeliteksti=<P align="justify"> On either side of the fireplace in a Lapp hut there were living and sleeping areas. The name for them in North Saami is <i>loaidu</i>, and corresponding forms are found in all {{Artikkelilinkki|20140721171759|Saami languages}}. The same word is used in the Finnish dialects of southern Lapland in the form <i>loito</i>, and it is generally held to be a borrowing from Saami. As far as sound correspondences are concerned, it is also possible that the word in both Saami and Finnish is descended from a word in {{Artikkelilinkki|0142|Early Proto-Finnic}} or that, like the word <i>[[Boaššu, Posio|boaššu]]</i>, the Saami word is a borrowing from Baltic-Finnic.</p>

<P align="justify"> Phonetically the nearest correspondence, apart from the Finnish <i>loito</i>, is the Estonian word <i>loid</i> limp, listless The Estonian word probably belongs to the same extensive group of words as the Finnish <i>loijua</i> and <i>loikoa</i> both meaning to sprawl, lounge. If the Saami word loaidu also belongs (either as an original Saami word or as an ancient borrowing) to this group, one could imagine that its semantic development came from the sense of resting, lying or, and perhaps more probably, from the other meaning of this word family: sloping, not upright, leaning against something, in which case it would refer to the sloping side of the Lapp hut.</p><BR>
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