Where does “kananugget” come from?

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

Ancestry of “kananugget”, step by step

kananugget 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 nugget

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishnugget—
Every word from Middle Chinese 名 →Every word from Japanese 名 →Every word from Japanese 仮名 →