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Where does “saunoa” come from?

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

saunoa (Finnish): To bath in a sauna, to have a sauna

Definitions

  1. To bath in a sauna, to have a sauna

Ancestry of “saunoa”, step by step

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

Words derived from “saunoa”

  • saunoja
  • saunominen
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