Where does “saunakiuas” come from?

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

saunakiuas (Finnish): sauna stove

Definitions

  1. sauna stove

Ancestry of “saunakiuas”, step by step

saunakiuas 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 kiuas

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishkiuasA sauna stove, traditionally a wood-burning...
2Proto-Finnickiukasastove in a sauna
Every word from Proto-Germanic stakna- →Every word from Proto-Finnic sakna →Every word from Finnish sauna →