leppä

== Finnish == === Etymology === From Proto-Finnic *leppä (compare Estonian lepp, Veps lep), possibly borrowed from Proto-Baltic *léiˀpāˀ (“linden tree”) (compare Latvian liepa), if the Finnic and Baltic words are not of common substrate origin. Also related to Erzya лепе (lepe). (blood): Euphemistic; refers to the fact that the wood of the alder tree turns red when cut. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈlepːæ/, [ˈle̞pːæ] Rhymes: -epːæ Syllabification(key): lep‧pä Hyphenation(key): lep‧pä === Noun === leppä alder (any of the trees in the genus Alnus) grey alder (Alnus incana) Synonym: harmaaleppä (archaic, euphemistic) blood ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== === Further reading === “leppä”, 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 == Ingrian == === Etymology === From Proto-Finnic *leppä. Cognates include Finnish leppä and Estonian lepp. === Pronunciation === (Ala-Laukaa) IPA(key): /ˈlepːæ/, [ˈlʲe̞pː] (Soikkola) IPA(key): /ˈlepːæ/, [ˈle̞pːæ] Rhymes: -epː, -epːæ Hyphenation: lep‧pä === Noun === leppä alder ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== (diminutive) leppäin === References === V. I. Junus (1936), Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎[2], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 25 Ruben E. Nirvi (1971), Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 261 == Karelian == === Etymology === From Proto-Finnic *leppä. Cognates include Finnish leppä and Veps lep. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈlʲepːæ/ Hyphenation: lep‧pä === Noun === leppä (genitive lepän, partitive leppyä / leppiä, diminutive leppäni / leppäne) alder ==== Declension ==== === References === A. V. Punzhina (1994), “leppä”, in Словарь карельского языка (тверские говоры) [Dictionary of the Karelian language (Tver dialects)], →ISBN P. Zaykov; L. Rugoyeva (1999), “leppä”, in Карельско-Русский словарь (Северно-Карельские диалекты) [Karelian-Russian dictionary (North Karelian dialects)], Petrozavodsk, →ISBN, page 86 Pertti Virtaranta; Raija Koponen (2009), “leppä”, in Marja Torikka, editor, Karjalan kielen sanakirja‎[3], Helsinki: Kotus, →ISSN