Where does “kanalauma” come from?
kanalauma (Finnish) comes from Finnish kana, from Japanese 仮名, from Japanese 名, from Middle Chinese 名 — name.
kanalauma (Finnish): A group of women, especially a noisy one
Definitions
- A group of women, especially a noisy one
Ancestry of “kanalauma”, step by step
kanalauma 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 lauma
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | lauma | herd; crowd, mob, flock; pod |
| 2 | Finnish | -ttain | Forms distributive adverbs; Forms adverbs... |
| 3 | Finnish | -ttaen | — |