Finnish sauna temperature within the sauna. Only the word "löyly" is used for this particular type of steam (the Finnish word "höyry" ('steam, vapour') is never used for it except in a scientific sense. Equivalents for "löyly" can be found in the Finnic languages such as the Karelian "löyly", the Estonian "leil", the Votic "leülü", the Veps "l'öl"' and the Livonian "löul". Its original sense signified 'spirit, breath, soul' and this is still seen in the Uralic languages--for example, the Udmurt "lul", the Komi "lol", the Mansi "läl" ('life'), the Khanty "lil" and the Hungarian "lélek". Occasionally one uses a bunch of
Uralic languages century. It has enjoyed frequent adaptation in whole or in part in encyclopedias, handbooks, and overviews of the Uralic family. Donner's model is as follows: At Donner's time, the Samoyedic languages were still poorly known, and he was not able to address their position. As they became better known in the early 20th century, they were found to be quite divergent, and they were assumed to have separated already early on. The terminology adopted for this was "Uralic" for the entire family, "Finno-Ugric" for the non-Samoyedic languages (though "Finno-Ugric" has, to this day, remained in use also as a synonym