Where does “σάουνα” come from?

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

σάουνα (Greek): sauna

Definitions

  1. sauna

Ancestry of “σάουνα”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishsaunasauna; Any bath where sweating is part of the...
2Proto-Finnicsaknasauna
3Proto-Germanicstakna-—
Every word from Proto-Germanic stakna- →Every word from Proto-Finnic sakna →Every word from Finnish sauna →