Where does “kanamaisesti” come from?

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

kanamaisesti (Finnish): chickenlike, in a chickenlike manner

Definitions

  1. chickenlike, in a chickenlike manner

Ancestry of “kanamaisesti”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkanamainenchickenlike
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
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