Where does “kanapiiras” come from?

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

kanapiiras (Finnish): chicken pie

Definitions

  1. chicken pie

Ancestry of “kanapiiras”, step by step

kanapiiras 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 piiras

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpiiraspie
2Old East Slavicпирогъ—
3Proto-Slavicpirogъtype of pie?
4Proto-Slavicpirъfest; party
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