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läz
- close, near
- nearby
läz
- near, close to
- next to
- around, about, approximately
- around, at approximately (time)
- almost, nearly
- Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “близко, вблизи, возле, недалеко, около, под, почти, приблизительно, рядом”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary][1], Petrozavodsk: Periodika