Leikeiden

Leikeiden is the genitive plural form of the Finnish noun leike. Leike has several common meanings in Finnish: a slice of meat or other cold cuts; a clipping or excerpt from a newspaper, magazine, or book; and more generally a cut-out or sample used in crafts, scrapbooks, or collections. In ordinary usage, leikeiden appears in phrases that refer to multiple such items or to a collection of them, for example leikeiden keräily (the collecting of clippings) or leikeiden arkisto (an archive of clippings).

In culinary contexts, leike refers to a slice of meat or a portion of cold cuts. Leikeiden would thus refer to multiple such slices, for example when describing a recipe, a shopping list, or a menu that lists several leikkeet.

In publishing and archival language, leike means a clipping or excerpt from a printed work. Leikkeet are the individual cuttings kept for reference, study, or presentation. Leikeiden, used in sentences about the collection or ownership of multiple clippings, denotes the set or amount of those excerpts.

The term is part of standard Finnish vocabulary and is commonly found in both spoken and written discourse. Its most frequent usage occurs in compound constructions and phrases that describe possession, quantity, or organization of multiple items, whether those items are meat slices or textual cuttings. Leikeiden thus functions primarily as a grammatical form rather than as a stand-alone concept, with its meaning determined by the surrounding context.