Where does “saunapalvi” come from?

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

saunapalvi (Finnish): A traditional Finnish type of cured meat, typically pork, that has been slowly smoked in a savusauna or, nowadays more commonly, in a smokery that provides a similar warm and humid atmosphere

Definitions

  1. A traditional Finnish type of cured meat, typically pork, that has been slowly smoked in a savusauna or, nowadays more commonly, in a smokery that provides a similar warm and humid atmosphere

Ancestry of “saunapalvi”, step by step

saunapalvi 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 pälvi

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpälvia bald spot, a patch of snow-free ground,...
2Finnishpalvatato cure
Every word from Proto-Germanic stakna- →Every word from Proto-Finnic sakna →Every word from Finnish sauna →