Where does “kanahaukka” come from?
kanahaukka (Finnish) comes from Finnish kana, from Japanese 仮名, from Japanese 名, from Middle Chinese 名 — name.
kanahaukka (Finnish): goshawk (Astur gentilis)
Ancestry of “kanahaukka”, step by step
kanahaukka traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish kana
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | kana | chicken; hen; gallinaceous |
| 2 | Japanese | 仮名 | a category of Japanese syllabary scripts: kana; a... |
| 3 | Japanese | 名 | name; reputation; famous, great, noted |
| 4 | Middle Chinese | 名 | name |
via Finnish haukka
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | haukka | hawk; bite |
| 2 | Proto-Finnic | habukka | hawk, falcon |
| 3 | Proto-Germanic | habukaz | hawk |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | kap- | to seize, hold |
Words derived from “kanahaukka”