From which language does the word 'sauna' come ?
Sauna Sauna A sauna ( or ; ), or sudatory, is a small room or building designed as a place to experience dry or wet heat sessions, or an establishment with one or more of these facilities. The steam and high heat make the bathers perspire. Infrared therapy is often referred to as a type of sauna, but according to the Finnish sauna organizations, infrared is not a sauna. Originally borrowed from the early Proto-Germanic "*stakna-" whose descendants include English "stack", the word "sauna" is an ancient Finnish word referring to the traditional Finnish bath and to the bathhouse itself. In
Sauna in the Dutch language area women to wash regularly and have massages afterwards. People would louse each other in the public baths and wash themselves with ash and soap. In the countryside the public baths were probably as common as in the cities, though less luxurious. The steam bath or sauna was already described in the villages and towns of Germanic territories in the 10th century. There would be a signboard with a bundle of sticks and leaves on the street. The course of events was as follows: The sauna master blew his horn when the sauna opened. Then the people could come inside, barefoot,