Where does “三溫暖” come from?

三溫暖 (Chinese) comes from English sauna, from Finnish sauna, from Proto-Finnic sakna, from Proto-Germanic stakna-.

三溫暖 (Chinese): sauna

Definitions

  1. sauna

Ancestry of “三溫暖”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishsaunaA room or a house designed for heat sessions; The...
2Finnishsaunasauna; Any bath where sweating is part of the...
3Proto-Finnicsaknasauna
4Proto-Germanicstakna-—
Every word from Proto-Germanic stakna- →Every word from Proto-Finnic sakna →Every word from Finnish sauna →