Where does “kananmunaleikkuri” come from?
kananmunaleikkuri (Finnish) comes from Finnish kananmuna, from Finnish kana, from Japanese 仮名, from Japanese 名, from Middle Chinese 名 — name.
Ancestry of “kananmunaleikkuri”, step by step
kananmunaleikkuri 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 leikkuri
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | leikkuri | cutter |
| 2 | Finnish | leikata | to cut; to incise; to mow |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | leik'at'ak | to cut |