Where does “saunakalja” come from?

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

saunakalja (Finnish): a beer consumed while or after taking a sauna

Definitions

  1. a beer consumed while or after taking a sauna

Ancestry of “saunakalja”, step by step

saunakalja traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish sauna

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishsaunasauna; Any bath where sweating is part of the...
2Proto-Finnicsaknasauna
3Proto-Germanicstakna-—

via Finnish kalja

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkaljabeer; "short for" kotikalja; kvass
2FinnishkalejaPartitive plural form of kali
Every word from Proto-Germanic stakna- →Every word from Proto-Finnic sakna →Every word from Finnish sauna →