Where does “savusauna” come from?

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

savusauna (Finnish): smoke sauna

Definitions

  1. smoke sauna

Ancestry of “savusauna”, step by step

savusauna 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 savu

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishsavusmoke; a residential building with a chimney, a...
2Proto-Finnicsavu—
3Proto-Finno-Permicsawe—
Every word from Proto-Germanic stakna- →Every word from Proto-Finnic sakna →Every word from Finnish sauna →