Where does “kananmunajauhe” come from?
kananmunajauhe (Finnish) comes from Finnish kananmuna, from Finnish kana, from Japanese 仮名, from Japanese 名, from Middle Chinese 名 — name.
kananmunajauhe (Finnish): powdered egg
Ancestry of “kananmunajauhe”, step by step
kananmunajauhe traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish kananmuna
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | kananmuna | chicken egg, hen's egg |
| 2 | Finnish | kana | chicken; hen; gallinaceous |
| 3 | Japanese | 仮名 | a category of Japanese syllabary scripts: kana; a... |
| 4 | Japanese | 名 | name; reputation; famous, great, noted |
| 5 | Middle Chinese | 名 | name |
via Finnish jauhe
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | jauhe | powder; in compound terms in which jauhe is the... |
| 2 | Finnish | jauhaa | to grind, mince, chew; to jabber about silly or... |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | jauhadak | to grind |
| 4 | Proto-Finno-Permic | jaŋša- | — |