Where does “saunapalvata” come from?

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

saunapalvata (Finnish): to cure meat by smoking it slowly in humid smoke in conditions resembling a smoke sauna (savusauna)

Definitions

  1. to cure meat by smoking it slowly in humid smoke in conditions resembling a smoke sauna (savusauna)

Ancestry of “saunapalvata”, step by step

saunapalvata 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 palvata

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpalvatato cure
Every word from Proto-Germanic stakna- →Every word from Proto-Finnic sakna →Every word from Finnish sauna →