Where does “kananrinta” come from?
kananrinta (Finnish) comes from Finnish kana, from Japanese 仮名, from Japanese 名, from Middle Chinese 名 — name.
kananrinta (Finnish): chicken breast
Ancestry of “kananrinta”, step by step
kananrinta 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 rinta
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | rinta | breast; chest, especially the front side of it |
| 2 | Finnish | -mä | Front vowel variant of -ma |