Where does “aasianuikkukana” come from?
aasianuikkukana (Finnish) comes from Finnish uikkukana, from Finnish kana, from Japanese 仮名, from Japanese 名, from Middle Chinese 名 — name.
aasianuikkukana (Finnish): masked finfoot, "Heliopais personatus"
Definitions
- masked finfoot, "Heliopais personatus"
Ancestry of “aasianuikkukana”, step by step
aasianuikkukana traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish uikkukana
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | uikkukana | finfoot |
| 2 | Finnish | kana | chicken; hen; gallinaceous |
| 3 | Japanese | 仮名 | a category of Japanese syllabary scripts: kana; a... |
| 4 | Japanese | 名 | name; reputation; famous, great, noted |
| 5 | Middle Chinese | 名 | name |
via Finnish Aasia
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | Aasia | of Asia; Asia; Asian |
| 2 | Latin | Āsia | A kind of rye |
| 3 | Ancient Greek | Ἀσία | Asia Minor; Asia; Asia |
| 4 | Mycenaean Greek | 𐀀𐀯𐀹𐀊 | an ethnonym for a Lydian; an epithet of the... |
| 5 | Hittite | 𒀸𒋗𒉿 | northwest Anatolia |