Where does “kanaliemikuutio” come from?

kanaliemikuutio (Finnish) comes from Finnish kanaliemi, from Finnish kana, from Japanese 仮名, from Japanese 名, from Middle Chinese 名 — name.

kanaliemikuutio (Finnish): chicken stock cube, chicken bouillon cube, chicken broth cube

Definitions

  1. chicken stock cube, chicken bouillon cube, chicken broth cube

Ancestry of “kanaliemikuutio”, step by step

kanaliemikuutio traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish kanaliemi

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkanaliemichicken stock, chicken bouillon, chicken broth
2Finnishkanachicken; hen; gallinaceous
3Japanese仮名a category of Japanese syllabary scripts: kana; a...
4Japanese名name; reputation; famous, great, noted
5Middle Chinese名name

via Finnish kuutio

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkuutiocube; Short for kuutiometri
2Finnishkuusisix; spruce; Norway spruce, "Picea abies"
3Proto-Finnickuucisix
4Proto-Uralickutteridge; six
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