Kodulehed

Kodulehed is the Estonian plural form of koduleht, a term used to refer to websites or homepages. In ordinary usage, koduleht denotes the main page of a website or the site as a whole. The plural kodulehed refers to multiple homepages or to websites in general.

Etymology: The word is a compound of kodu meaning home and leht meaning page or leaf, reflecting the metaphor of a page within a collection of content. This formation is common in Estonian web terminology.

Usage: In Estonian media, business, and web development contexts, kodulehed is used to discuss the set of sites belonging to an organization or to speak about websites in general. Some contexts distinguish koduleht (the homepage) from veebileht or veebisait (the website more broadly), though the terms can be overlapping in everyday language.

History: Estonian web vocabulary developed alongside the global expansion of the internet. Terms like koduleht emerged to describe a site’s function and structure. The plural form kodulehed is used when referring to several sites or several homepage instances.

See also: Related Estonian terms include veebileht (website or web page) and veebisait (website), as well as kodulehekülg, a form related to the homepage. These terms are part of the standard web- and IT-terminology in Estonian.