lavantauti

lavan +‎ tauti, possibly from

• lava, in modern language "platform, bed", but in older language also referring to a wooden bed, because the disease would cause someone to be bedridden
• lapa; compare to lapautua (“(of a horse) to become lame due to a broken or dislocated front leg”), which also dialectally "to go limp, weaken"

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɑʋɑnˌtɑu̯ti/, [ˈlɑ̝ʋɑ̝n̪ˌt̪ɑ̝u̯t̪i]
• Rhymes: -ɑuti
• Syllabification^(key): la‧van‧tau‧ti

lavantauti

1. (pathology) typhoid fever

• tyyfus

• “lavantauti”, 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 2023-07-02