Where does “kanapyörykkä” come from?

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

kanapyörykkä (Finnish): chicken meatball

Definitions

  1. chicken meatball

Ancestry of “kanapyörykkä”, step by step

kanapyörykkä 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 pyörykkä

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpyörykkäball
2Finnishpyöreäround; rounded, labial; rounded
3Finnishpyöräwheel; caster; Short for polkupyörä
4Proto-Finno-Ugric*pöörä—
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