Where does “sauna” come from?

sauna (Dutch) comes from Finnish sauna, from Proto-Finnic sakna, from Proto-Germanic stakna-.

sauna (Dutch): sauna; a session in a sauna

Definitions

  1. sauna; a session in a sauna

Ancestry of “sauna”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishsaunasauna; Any bath where sweating is part of the...
2Proto-Finnicsaknasauna
3Proto-Germanicstakna-—
Every word from Proto-Germanic stakna- →Every word from Proto-Finnic sakna →Every word from Finnish sauna →