Where does “Sauna” come from?

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

Sauna (German): sauna

Definitions

  1. sauna

Ancestry of “Sauna”, step by step

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

Words derived from “Sauna”

Every word from Proto-Germanic stakna- →Every word from Proto-Finnic sakna →Every word from Finnish sauna →