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sauna

Sauna is one of the few Finnish words known worldwide; English took it with the bathhouse itself in the late 19th century, and Finnish athletes' saunas at the 1936 Berlin and 1964 Tokyo Olympics helped carry it into German, Japanese and beyond.

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From Finnish to German

From Finnish to Russian

From English to French

From English to Spanish

From English to Japanese

From English to Korean

From English to Modern Hebrew

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