Where does “saunavihta” come from?

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

saunavihta (Finnish): sauna bath broom, sauna broom, sauna whisk

Definitions

  1. sauna bath broom, sauna broom, sauna whisk

Ancestry of “saunavihta”, step by step

saunavihta 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 vihta

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishvihtaA kind of whip made of birch twigs and used in...
2Proto-Samicvittëfive
3Proto-Uralicwittefive; ten
Every word from Proto-Germanic stakna- →Every word from Proto-Finnic sakna →Every word from Finnish sauna →