leipä

• IPA^(key): /ˈlei̯pæ/, [ˈle̞i̯pæ]
• Rhymes: -eipæ
• Hyphenation^(key): lei‧pä

From Proto-Finnic *laipa (compare Estonian leib (“bread”)), borrowed from Proto-Germanic *hlaibaz (compare German Laib (“loaf”), English loaf).^[1] Slavic words like Russian хлеб (xleb, “bread”) are likewise borrowed from Germanic.

leipä

1. (uncountable) bread (foodstuff)
2. (countable) bread (any variety of bread)
3. (uncountable) bread (food; sustenance; support of life, in general; living); livelihood

   Anna meille tänä päivänä meidän jokapäiväinen leipämme. (Matt. 6:11)

   Give us this day our daily bread. (Matthew vi. 11)

   ansaita leipänsä ― to earn one's living

4. (in compounds) sandwich

   juustoleipä ― cheese sandwich

   klubileipä ― club sandwich

5. (countable) In the game of ducks and drakes, an individual set of rings caused by the stone jumping from the surface of the water, see heittää leipiä (“to play ducks and drakes”).

• → Kildin Sami: ле̄ййп (liejjp)

• “leipä”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01

leipä

1. form of lei (with enclitic -pä)

• lipeä, peliä

From Proto-Finnic *laipa. Cognates include Finnish leipä and Estonian leib.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈlei̯pæ/, [ˈlʲe̞i̯p]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈlei̯pæ/, [ˈle̞i̯b̥æ]
• Rhymes: -ei̯p, -ei̯pæ
• Hyphenation: lei‧pä

leipä

1. bread

Declension of leipä (type 3/koira, p-v gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	leipä	leivät
genitive	leivän	leipiin
partitive	leipää	leipiä
illative	leipää	leipii
inessive	leivääs	leiviis
elative	leiväst	leivist
allative	leivälle	leiville
adessive	leivääl	leiviil
ablative	leivält	leivilt
translative	leiväks	leiviks
essive	leipännä, leipään	leipinnä, leipiin
exessive1)	leipänt	leipint
1) obsolete *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.

• (childish) päppä

• (diminutive) leivykkäin

• Fedor Tumansky (1790) “лейба”, in Опытъ повѣствованїя о дѣянїях, положенїи, состоянїи и раздѣленїи Санкт-Петербургской губернїи [An experiment of an account of the acts, location, condition and division of the Saint Petersburg gubernia], Краткїй словарь ижерскаго, финскаго, эстонскаго, чюдскаго, и ямскаго нарѣчїя съ россїйскимъ переводомъ [A short dictionary of the Ingrian, Finnish, Estonian, Chud and Yamtian dialects with a Russian translation], page 697
• V. I. Junus (1936) Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎^[3], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 24
• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 258

Regional variants of leipä

North Karelian (Viena)	leipä
South Karelian (Tver)	leibä

Inherited from Proto-Finnic *laipa. Cognate with Estonian leib, Finnish leipä, German Laib and Russian хлеб (xleb).

leipä (genitive leivän, partitive leipyä)

1. (North Karelian) bread