leipä

leipä = bread in Finnish

What do the English “loaf”, German “Laib” (loaf of bread), Icelandic “hleifur” (loaf of bread), Swedish “lev” (loaf of bread), Polish “chleb” (bread), Bulgarian “хляб” {hljab} (bread) and Finnish “leipä”? Well, they all come from the Proto-Germanic *hlaibaz (bread).

All Finnic and some Ugric languages borrowed that word from the Proto-Germanic.

Finnic languages:
leib in Estonian (> lēba in Livonian, leib in Võro)
leipä in Finnish, Ingrian & Votic
leipä / leibä in Karelian
leiby in Livvi
leib in Veps & Ludian

Ugric languages:
leibi in Inari Sami (through Finnish)
lei’bb in Skolt Sami (through Finnish)
laejpie in Southern Sami
lájbbie in Ume Sami
lájjbe in Pite Sami
lájbbe in Lule Sami
láibi in Northern Sami
ле̄ййп {lʹējjp} in Kildin Sami

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