lounas

Etymology
, from. Cognates include 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬. Permic cognates have the meaning "day", whereas Baltic-Finnic cognates denote the direction where the Sun is at midday or the meal eaten at midday.

The compass point meaning was clarified in the 19th century and inverted compared to Estonian: southwest is lounas in Finnish and edel in Estonian while south is etelä in Finnish and lõuna in Estonian. In earlier text and dialects lounas may mean either south, southwest or southeast. Compare.

Noun

 * 1) southwest
 * 2) lunch