lafo

Esperanto

lafo

Etymology

From Italian lava, English lava, French lave, German Lava, Polish lawa, and Russian лава (lava). The letter v was changed to the letter f because the word lavi already means "to wash".

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlafo/
  • Hyphenation: la‧fo
  • Rhymes: -afo

Noun

lafo (accusative singular lafon, plural lafoj, accusative plural lafojn)

  1. (volcanology) lava

Derived terms

Samoan

Noun

lafo

  1. cloth used as gratuity for a talking chief
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