keitto

== Finnish == === Etymology === From keittää (“to boil, to cook”) +‎ -o; original literal sense “boiling, cooking”. (soup): Referring to the fact that most soups (at least in Finnish cuisine) are prepared by boiling ingredients in water (or another liquid). In Old Literary Finnish, the term was still more broad, referring to any boiled dish in general. (booze): From the sense “to brew” of keittää on the one hand and the sense “soup” (euphemistically and/or humorously) on the other. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈkei̯tːo/, [ˈk̟e̞i̯t̪ːo̞] Rhymes: -eitːo Syllabification(key): keit‧to Hyphenation(key): keit‧to === Noun === keitto soup Synonym: soppa (dialectal or informal) päivän keitto ― soup du jour, soup of the day boiling (method, process) (as a modifier in compounds) cook, cook-, cooked, cooking; boiling, boiled (slang) booze (alcoholic beverage) ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== === Further reading === “keitto”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023 === Anagrams === keitot, koitte