luode

• IPA^(key): /ˈluo̯deˣ/,
• Rhymes: -uode
• Hyphenation^(key): luo‧de

From Proto-Finnic *loodëh (compare Estonian loe, Ingrian looe, loove, Karelian luuveh (“west; southwest”), Livonian lūod, Ludian luodeh (“west”), Veps lode (“northwest; west”), lodeh (“northwest; west”), Votic looõ (“northwest”)), of uncertain further origin; possibly akin to luoda and luo (possibly a verb with like *luotaa (“to descend”)), or alternatively of Germanic origin, like luode (etymology 2).^[1]

luode

1. northwest

• kaakko

• (compass points)

luode	pohjoinen	koillinen
länsi		itä
lounas	etelä	kaakko

• “1. luode”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01

From Proto-Finnic *loodëh, borrowed from Proto-Germanic *flōduz (compare German Flut, Swedish flod) and derived with +‎ -e. Originally meant flood or high tide; the sense "ebb" is a literary invention from the 1830s. See also vuoksi for further details.

luode

1. ebb (receding tide)

   Synonym: laskuvesi

   Antonyms: vuoksi, nousuvesi

2. Synonym of matalavesi (“low tide”)

• vuorovesi (“tide”)

• “2. luode”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01

• loude