heittää löylyä
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
Literally, “to throw löyly”
Verb edit
- (idiomatic) to throw water on the sauna stove (kiuas) in order to produce steam and increase the humidity in the sauna and the feeling of heat, the apparent temperature (even though in fact, the water's evaporation makes the temperature drop)
- Synonyms: lisätä löylyä, lyödä löylyä
- Heitä löylyä.
- Throw some water on the rocks.
Conjugation edit
See heittää. löylyä is in the partitive case, but is inflected in the genitive in action nouns: see Appendix:Finnish verb phrases.