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
Finnic languages East Finnish dialects, and is only missing from West Finnish dialects and Standard Finnish. A special characteristic of the languages is the large number of diphthongs. There are 16 diphthongs in Finnish and 25 in Estonian; at the same time the frequency is greater in Finnish than in Estonian. There are 14 grammatical cases in Estonian and 15 in Finnish, which are denoted by adding a suffix. The Finnic languages form a complex dialect continuum with few clear-cut boundaries. Innovations have often spread through a variety of areas, even after variety-specific changes. A broad twofold conventional division of the Finnic