Taking a sauna begins with having a wash (usually a shower), followed by a sit in the sauna room, the room being typically warmed to . Water is thrown on the hot stones topping the "kiuas", a special stove used to warm up the sauna. This produces great amounts of wet steam, known as "löyly", increasing the moisture and the apparent 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".