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Luohti The word luohti a chant (dedicated to someone or something) is found only in North Saami; In Lule Saami and dialects further west the word used in the same meaning is vuolle (which belongs to the same word family as the North Saami vuolludit to boast, vaunt and is related to the Finnish vala oath ). In Inari Saami and other eastern Saami languages the corresponding word is livðe (a Scandinavian loan word of the same word family as the North Saami livdet to hum, chant ). Knut Leem s dictionary of 1768 also gives luohti the meaning: a song of the superstitious Saamis that was believed to repel wolves . And in Ter Saami a similar word is recorded as meaning a victim; the pagan religion of the Saamis. The Ter Saami word would correspond to a North Saami form *luohtti. Both the North Saami and the Ter Saami words have been compared on the one hand to the Finnish word luote incantation and on the other to the Old Norwegian words blot a pagan victim or sacrifice; an idol and blóta to sacrifice . The general view is that both the Saami and the Finnish words are borrowings from this Scandinavian word family; it is also quite possible that several words of different origins later influenced one another. Otsikko 102