voileipä

Finnish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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”)

Declension

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

Further reading

• “voileipä”, 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 2023-07-04