voileipä

== Finnish == === Etymology === Dvandva compound of voi (“butter”) +‎ leipä (“bread”); compare archaic Swedish smörbröd, Danish smørrebrød, German Butterbrot. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈʋoi̯ˌlei̯pæ/, [ˈʋo̞i̯ˌle̞i̯pæ] Rhymes: -eipæ Syllabification(key): voi‧lei‧pä Hyphenation(key): voi‧leipä === Noun === voileipä A slice of bread served with butter and possibly other toppings; (loosely) a dish with one or more slices of bread with toppings or fillings; a sandwich. Synonym: (slang) voikku bread and butter, bread with butter (buttered slice of bread) open sandwich (slice of bread with some toppings) sandwich (two slices of bread with fillings between them) Synonym: kerrosvoileipä 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”) Synonym: leipä ==== Usage notes ==== voileipä typically implies an open sandwich, unlike English sandwich. A sandwich with more than one slice of bread with toppings in between may be called kerrosvoileipä for clarity. ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== === Further reading === “voileipä”, 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 4 July 2023