heittää löylyä

Finnish

Etymology

Literally, “to throw löyly”

Verb

heittää löylyä

1. (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

See heittää. löylyä is in the partitive case, but is inflected in the genitive in action nouns: see Appendix:Finnish verb phrases.