Where does “kananen” come from?

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

kananen (Finnish): chick, chicken

Definitions

  1. chick, chicken

Ancestry of “kananen”, step by step

kananen 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 Ancient Greek Κόνων

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Ancient GreekΚόνωνConon
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