Where does “サウナ” come from?

サウナ (Japanese) comes from Finnish sauna, from Proto-Finnic sakna, from Proto-Germanic stakna-.

サウナ (Japanese): a sauna

Definitions

  1. a sauna

Ancestry of “サウナ”, 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 →