Where does “kananpaisti” come from?

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

kananpaisti (Finnish): roast chicken

Definitions

  1. roast chicken

Ancestry of “kananpaisti”, step by step

kananpaisti 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 paisti

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpaistiround; leg; ham, leg
2Finnishpaistaato fry; to grill, barbecue; to braise
3Proto-Finnicpaistadakto shine; to bake, to roast, to fry
4Proto-Finnicpaa-—
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