Where does “saunotus” come from?
saunotus (Finnish) comes from Finnish saunottaa, from Finnish saunoa, from Finnish sauna, from Proto-Finnic sakna, from Proto-Germanic stakna-.
saunotus (Finnish): making (someone) have a sauna
Definitions
- making (someone) have a sauna
Ancestry of “saunotus”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Finnish | saunottaa | to make (someone) visit a sauna |
| 2 | Finnish | saunoa | To bath in a sauna, to have a sauna |
| 3 | Finnish | sauna | sauna; Any bath where sweating is part of the... |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | sakna | sauna |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | stakna- | — |