Where does “kananpaska” come from?
kananpaska (Finnish) comes from Finnish kana, from Japanese 仮名, from Japanese 名, from Middle Chinese 名 — name.
kananpaska (Finnish): chicken shit
Ancestry of “kananpaska”, step by step
kananpaska traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish kana
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | kana | chicken; hen; gallinaceous |
| 2 | Japanese | 仮名 | a category of Japanese syllabary scripts: kana; a... |
| 3 | Japanese | 名 | name; reputation; famous, great, noted |
| 4 | Middle Chinese | 名 | name |
via Finnish paska
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | paska | shit, crap, turd; bullshit, crap, shit, nonsense;... |
| 2 | Finnish | oja | ditch, trench; small natural brook |
| 3 | Proto-Slavic | oje | thill, shaft |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂oyHsos | — |