Laista
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Laista
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  Laista | |
| Coordinates: 39°58′22″N 20°57′18″E / 39.97278°N 20.95500°E | |
| Country | Greece |
| Administrative region | Epirus |
| Regional unit | Ioannina |
| Municipality | Zagori |
| Municipal unit | Tymfi |
| Elevation | 1,276 m (4,186 ft) |
| Population (2021)[1] | |
• Community | 58 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Laista (Greek: Λάϊστα, Aromanian: Lakă)[2] is a settlement in Ioannina regional unit, Epirus, Greece. The village located in the northern part of the Zagori region.[3]
In the 19th century, the scholar Ioannis Lambridis said four families from a village called Lasste transferred the name of their former place of residence to Laista.[4] Lambridis wrote that Laista was the oldest name of the village, which was also known as Lakka.[4] The scholar Panagiotis Aravantinos described the toponym as Albanian.[4] It is derived from the Albanian word lashtë meaning 'ancient, old' and the development of the sound i in the placename.[4] The linguist Kostas Oikonomou stated the toponym recorded by Lambridis with a double s indicates an Aromanian pronunciation of š, itself from the Albanian sh.[4]