Where does “사우나” come from?

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

사우나 (Korean): sauna

Definitions

  1. sauna

Ancestry of “사우나”, 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 →