laul
/lɑul/
noun
Origin
Proto-Finno-Ugric
*laula- — to sing
Overview
Meaning Now
- A song or a vocal musical composition.
Language path
Proto-Germanic → Old Estonian → Estonian
Earliest form
laul
Earliest period
13th century
Journey
The word is a cognate across Finnic languages, reflecting the deep cultural importance of singing in the Baltic-Finnic oral tradition, notably preserved in the runo songs.
Evolution
- Proto-Finno-Ugric
*laula-
“to sing”
Reconstructed verbal root
- Proto-Finnic
*laulu
“song”
Nominalization of the verb
- Estonian
laul
“song”
Modern standardized form
Connections
Word parts
laul
root
song
Related across languages
Finnish
laulu
song
Veps
song
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