Where does “kanankoipi” come from?

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

kanankoipi (Finnish): chicken leg, drumstick

Definitions

  1. chicken leg, drumstick

Ancestry of “kanankoipi”, step by step

kanankoipi 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 koipi

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkoipithe leg of a bird; leg of a human
2Proto-Finnickoipaleg of an animal
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