Where does “sauna” come from?

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

sauna (Finnish): sauna; Any bath where sweating is part of the...

Definitions

  1. sauna; Any bath where sweating is part of the...

Ancestry of “sauna”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Finnicsaknasauna
2Proto-Germanicstakna-—

Words derived from “sauna”

Every word from Proto-Germanic stakna- →Every word from Proto-Finnic sakna →