GUDRUN JANKIS Letkis

Letkajenkka / letkis is a music genre and a general noun as well as two songs by the same name (“Letkajenkka“ and “Letkis“) as proper nouns, after which the genre got its name; jenkka, on the other hand, is a general noun, a music and dance genre like waltz. For versions in other languages, Lehtinen’s Letkis was renamed Letkiss, Let’s Kiss, Lasst uns Küssen etc., for easier pronunciation in different languages. The name Letkis has nothing to do with kissing; the idea of kissing was introduced by non-Finnish speakers, who thought that the title of the song sounded like “kissing“. In Finnish Letkis / letkis is merely short for Letkajenkka / letkajenkka, a diminutive formed by the beginning of the word and adding “is“ in the end.