a broad, smoothly curved indentation in a coastline; a bay, a gulf, a bight · a cove (when a sheltered bukt – see also vik) · a more or less circular bend (in a trajectory or something long and narrow)
bay, gulf, inlet (portion of a body of water extending into the land)
çekim: çoğul lahdet · tamlayan lahden
köken: From Proto-Finnic *lakci (compare Karelian laksi, Veps laht, Estonian laht, Votic lahti, Northern Sami luokta), borrowed from Proto-Baltic [Term?] (compare Lithuanian lanktis (“arc”)). -ht- in the nominative is by analogy with the oblique case forms; the expected form laksi (compare the declension of kaksi) has fallen out of usage in the standard language, but survives in Swedish-language…
köken: Etymology tree Esperanto golfo Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Italic *-tosder.? Late Latin -ittus Old French -et Middle French -et French -etbor. ▲ Late Latin -ittus Italian -ettobor. Esperanto -et- Esperanto golfeto From golfo (“gulf”) + -et- (“little”).