löyly
Finnish
FWOTD – 20 July 2018
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *leülü, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *lewle (“spirit, soul”).[1] Cognate with Estonian leil, Komi-Permyak лов (lov), Udmurt лул (lul), Northern Sami lievla and Hungarian lélek (“soul, ghost”).[2]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈløy̯ly/, [ˈlø̞y̯ly]
- Rhymes: -øyly
- Syllabification(key): löy‧ly
Noun
löyly
- the steam that rises from the sauna stove (kiuas) or the heat of the sauna
- Löylyssä ei ole hyvä istua kerralla viittätoista minuuttia enempää.
- One shouldn't sit in the heat of the sauna for more than fifteen minutes at a time.
- Heittäisitkö vähän löylyä?
- Could you throw some water (on the stove)?
- Mennään takaisin löylyyn!
- Let's go back to the (heat of) sauna!
- (in the plural) sauna bath, sauna (act of taking a bath in a sauna)
- Olipas hyvät löylyt!
- That was one good sauna bath!
- 2017 July 1, Anu Punkari, “Miltä tuntuvat löylyt maailman ainoassa maailmanpyöräsaunassa? MTV Uutiset mukana testaamassa”, in MTV, archived from the original on 3 July 2017:
- Miltä tuntuvat löylyt maailman ainoassa maailmanpyöräsaunassa?
- How does it feel like to take a sauna bath in the world's only Ferris wheel sauna?
- (figuratively) heat, pressure, intensity
- lisätä löylyä johonkin ― to turn up the heat on something
- lisätä löylyä mainoskampanjaan ― to turn up the heat on an advertising campaign
- 2018 March 5, “Kiuasvalmistaja Harvia aikeissa hakea lisää löylyä pörssilistautumisella”, in Kaleva, retrieved 12 July 2018:
- Kiuasvalmistaja Harvia aikeissa hakea lisää löylyä pörssilistautumisella
- Sauna stove manufacturer Harvia intending to turn up the heat by listing on stock exchange
- (obsolete) spirit
Declension
| Inflection of löyly (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | ||||
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| nominative | löyly | löylyt | ||
| genitive | löylyn | löylyjen | ||
| partitive | löylyä | löylyjä | ||
| illative | löylyyn | löylyihin | ||
| singular | plural | |||
| nominative | löyly | löylyt | ||
| accusative | nom. | löyly | löylyt | |
| gen. | löylyn | |||
| genitive | löylyn | löylyjen | ||
| partitive | löylyä | löylyjä | ||
| inessive | löylyssä | löylyissä | ||
| elative | löylystä | löylyistä | ||
| illative | löylyyn | löylyihin | ||
| adessive | löylyllä | löylyillä | ||
| ablative | löylyltä | löylyiltä | ||
| allative | löylylle | löylyille | ||
| essive | löylynä | löylyinä | ||
| translative | löylyksi | löylyiksi | ||
| abessive | löylyttä | löylyittä | ||
| instructive | — | löylyin | ||
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | |||
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Descendants
- → Japanese: ロウリュ
See also
- For a listing of sauna-related vocabulary, see list of meronyms in the Finnish entry for "sauna".
References
- Junttila, Santeri, Kallio, Petri, Holopainen, Sampsa, Kuokkala, Juha, Pystynen, Juho, editors (2020–), “löyly”, in Suomen vanhimman sanaston etymologinen verkkosanakirja (in Finnish), retrieved 2024-01-01
- Häkkinen, Kaisa (2004) Nykysuomen etymologinen sanakirja [Modern Finnish Etymological Dictionary] (in Finnish), Juva: WSOY, →ISBN
Further reading
- “löyly”, 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 2023-07-03
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