Where does “kanaparvi” come from?
kanaparvi (Finnish) comes from Finnish kana, from Japanese 仮名, from Japanese 名, from Middle Chinese 名 — name.
kanaparvi (Finnish): A flock of chickens
Ancestry of “kanaparvi”, step by step
kanaparvi 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 parvi
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | parvi | group of animals; group, cluster; cluster |
| 2 | Proto-Finnic | parvi | flock, group of animals |
| 3 | Proto-Finno-Ugric | parwɜ | — |