Where does “kananjalostus” come from?

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

kananjalostus (Finnish): selective chicken breeding

Definitions

  1. selective chicken breeding

Ancestry of “kananjalostus”, step by step

kananjalostus 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 jalostus

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishjalostusselective breeding, cross-breeding and other...
2FinnishjalostaaTo refine; To selectively breed
3Finnishjalonoble; fine, refined
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