Hilseilevät
Hilseilevät is a Finnish term used to describe surfaces or materials that shed small pieces from their outer layer, i.e., that are flaky or peeling. The form is typically the present tense, third-person plural of the verb hilseillä, and it is also used as an adjective in phrases such as hilseilevä, meaning flaky or peeling. In everyday Finnish, hilseilevät is most often applied to non-living surfaces (paint, plaster, varnish, wallpaper) and to skin when referring to flaking patches.
In construction and home maintenance, hilseilevät commonly describes paint or wallpaper that loses adhesion and detaches
In a biological or medical everyday context, hilseilevät can describe skin that sheds flakes, commonly due
Etymologically, hilse refers to scales or flakes, and the form hilseilevät functions both as a descriptor and