Where does “kanalintu” come from?

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

kanalintu (Finnish): galliform, gallinaceous bird bird of the order Galliformes

Definitions

  1. galliform, gallinaceous bird bird of the order Galliformes

Ancestry of “kanalintu”, step by step

kanalintu traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish kana

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

via Finnish lintu

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishlintubird; poultry
2Proto-Finniclintubird
3Proto-Uralicluntabird; goose

Words derived from “kanalintu”

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