Where does “kananmuna” come from?

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

kananmuna (Finnish): chicken egg, hen's egg

Definitions

  1. chicken egg, hen's egg

Ancestry of “kananmuna”, step by step

kananmuna traces back through 3 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 Ingrian muna

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Ingrianmunaegg
2Proto-Finnicmunaegg
3Proto-Uralicmüŋärear, beyond; space behind something

via Finnish müŋä

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishmüŋäegg

Words derived from “kananmuna”

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