voileipä

Dvandva compound of voi (“butter”) +‎ leipä (“bread”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋoi̯ˌlei̯pæ/,
• Rhymes: -eipæ
• Syllabification^(key): voi‧lei‧pä

voileipä

1. bread and butter, bread with butter (buttered slice of bread)
2. open sandwich (slice of bread with some toppings)
3. sandwich (two slices of bread with fillings between them)
4. in the game of ducks and drakes, an individual jump of the stone from the surface of water; see heittää leipiä (“to play ducks and drakes”)

• (open sandwich): voikku (slang)
• (sandwich): kerrosvoileipä
• (jump of stone): leipä

• “voileipä”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-04